Dear friend! Many thanks for Rubakin's Volume I. I will return it to you shortly. If it is urgent, drop me a line. I am very glad that you do not sympathize with "Sovremennik": this foul enterprise of a bloc of two scoundrels, liquidators and narodniks, we will criticize harshly. (Mr. Stankovich invited me; I replied: "Being fundamentally in disagreement, I must decline cooperation."*)
Of course, due to the need for income, we all sometimes have to work for bourgeois publications! But Messrs. Martov and Dan

* This letter is also signed by G. E. Zinoviev. Ed.

** See this volume, p. 277. Ed.

I. F. ARMAND. MAY 25, 1914

staged a "demonstration"!! And Plekhanov in this shameful place! 330
I will gladly send you a certificate regarding your delegation: censored (how?) or illegal??

Yours,

Lenin