V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Colleagues! First of all, allow me to congratulate you on the immense improvement in the running of the newspaper which has been evident in the last few days. Congratulations and best wishes for further successes along these lines. The day before yesterday I sent two short articles, “The Growing Discrepancy”*. From No. 234 of *Pravda* I see clearly that these articles will not do.

Therefore, please hand them over without delay to *Prosveshcheniye*, to which I am sending the end. Also hand over to the same journal the other unpublished articles (reply to Mayevsky; on morality; Bulgakov on the peasants 186—Bulgakov’s articles from *Russkaya Mysl*, etc.). Please reply as soon as possible whether this has been done. Send me Nos. 7, 8, 21 and 24 of *Luch* and No. 25 of *Pravda*. I used to receive *Pravda* in the mornings, as I still do *Rech* and *Novoye Vremya*. But during the past week *Pravda* has been arriving late, only in the evening. It is clear that the dispatch department is not sending it regularly. Please take steps to ensure its more regular daily dispatch.

I am not receiving any new books at all. It is essential to take measures: (a) to obtain them from the publishers on the basis of an advance payment; (b) to obtain Duma and official publications through the deputies. It is absolutely impossible to work without books... I have neither *Zavety* nor *Russkaya Molva*. I cannot do without them. I particularly need that issue of *Russkaya Molva* which wrote about *Luch* and explained that the Mensheviks were against the underground. 187

March 1 (14) will be the thirtieth anniversary of Marx’s death. It would be a good thing to publish a supplement of four pages in the format of *Pravda*, costing two or three kopeks, with a large portrait of Marx and a number of short articles. 188 With advertisements (detailed ones) both for *Pravda* and *Prosveshcheniye*. It would probably pay for itself with a circulation of 25,000–30,000 and bring in a profit. If you agree, telegraph: “Get it ready” (we shall then sit down to write), and, in addition, write more fully.