320. TO N. V. KUZNETSOV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

320

To: N. V. KUZNETSOV

Written: Written January 26, 1914
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48. Sent to Paris. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, pages 380b-381a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Dear Friend,

I shall not be in Paris any more. The plan for publishing a lecture on the national question—nothing doing.

I repeat: not a kopek for anything except the bulletins of the C.C. They are to be done at Riskin’s printing shop (_not_Stepan’s). He is to be told to observe the strictest secrecy. You yourself or Inessa—but not Antonov—should get back all the MSS. and all the proof-sheets.

Tomorrow I am sending material for the bulletin. Format =sheet of 9.I.1914. Four such pages, Type—large for propaganda material (page 1); small for pages 2 and 3.

Do the job neatly, not à la Antonov and without Antonov. It is ridiculous and shameful to handle practical affairs through that daydreamer. What is needed is a committee ofpractical men and not a daydreamer (he is a nice, charming man, but a preposterous dreamer).

All the rest of the literature (the C.O., Programme, Rules, Kamenev s pamphlet, the London minutes,[1]etc., all) send without delay to Leipzig. Herrn Koiransky. Sophienstraßk: 30Irechts. Leipzig. (Indicate expéditeur.) Notify me immediately what has been sent and when, at the address: Mr. Wladimir Oulianoff. Rue Souveraine. 18. Bruxelles (Ixelles).

All the best,
Yours,
V. Lenin

Notes

[1] This refers to the minutes of the Fifth (London) Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.—Ed.