76. TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

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To: V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Written: Written in Geneva and mailed to a local address
Published: First published in 1928 in the journal Oktyabr No. 12. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, pages 114b-115a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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16/VII. 03

Dear V. D.,

G. V. told me that you can get from one of your acquaintances a Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia. If so, I would kindly ask you to get me the volumes containing the articles:
Peasantry,
Serfdom
Serf economy,
Corvée,
Quit-rent.

I am greatly in need of the reference material in these volumes for an article I am writing in a hurry.[1]Please let me know if you can get them.

Yours,
Lenin

Just received the pamphlet by Engels[3] and am sending it on to you. Ask V. M. to translate_all_ the Vorbemerkung[2]and return the pamphlet to me without delay.

When could she return it?

Just received your report.[4] Thanks!

Notes

[1] Lenin was working at the time on the article “Reply to Criticism of Our Draft Programme” (see present edition, Vol. 6, pp. 438–53).—Ed.

[2] Prefatory notes.—Ed.

[3] A reference to Engels’s “The Peasant Question in France and Germany” (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works in one volume, Moscow, 1968, pp. 633–50).

[4] The reference is to the report “Division and Sectarianism in Russia” written by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich at the request of Lenin and Plekhanov for the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Later the report was published in the Social-Democratic paper for members of religious sects Rassvet(Daybreak) No. 6–7 for 1904. The draft resolution on the publication of a periodical for members of religious sects was written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 6, p. 475).