Telegram to Zhou Enlai Regarding the Division of Volumes for the Russian Translation of the *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*

(September 19, 1952)

Comrade Enlai:

The Russian translation of the second volume of the *Selected Works of Mao Zedong* may be divided into two volumes in accordance with Comrade Yudin’s[1] opinion. If the third volume is too thick, it may also be divided into two volumes. Please inform Comrade Yudin.

Mao Zedong

September 19

Published based on the manuscript.

**Note**

[1] Yudin, a Soviet philosopher and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was then the editor-in-chief of *Soviet Books*.