TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

Source: PSS vol. 48

Dear V. D.! I received a letter from you at some point, but unfortunately I could not gather from it any idea of
the translation matter that concerns us. I heard that you are very dissatisfied about something. About what? How? Why? Has it been possible to settle it? I know nothing. This is extremely, extremely sad. And we must hurry greatly, because hostile elements are working around our flank. We have done what we could here to obtain the missing materials. One benefactor has turned up. We are sending it. Please arrange things so that we do not remain without information. We need to be informed at least once a week about incoming translations and so forth and so on. But all we get are some sort of rumors about discontent and nothing more. Some people seem to be inventing some sort of distinction between liquidationism and liquidators. What sophistry that is! We need neither one nor the other. Well, but you yourself will give them a rebuff. Greetings to V. M. My wife sends her regards and asks that you accept her bow.

The old man copies (censored)

Written 9 December 1910
Sent from Paris to Petersburg

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXV

Printed from typescript