454. TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

454

To: G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written: Written February 12, 1916
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Berne. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, pages 509b-510a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Liebe Freunde,

Please send me as quickly as you can Tagwacht containing Radek’s articles on Gorter and two articles about the Australian labour movement. I am also waiting for the proof-sheets (1) of my articles in the C.O. and (2) of the German theses (do not print them until you receive my reply: I am considering another little amendment).[1]

I am also waiting for your article for the C.O. and an exact plan of the issue.

Please give my address to Radek and ask him from me to send me the_promised_ cutting from Vorwärts of 12.I.1916 (Rühle’s article on the split and the editors’ reply). I am lecturing here on Wednesday, so I have very little time. There is tongue-wagging here about the position of the “5 secretaries”[2]being desperate (Russia against them) and their only hope is that Chkheidze will lift his voice from the “rostrum”, crying: for Zimmerwald!!

Beste Grü&Bwhatthe;e!
Ihr Lenin

Notes

[1] This refers to the theses “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 143–56).—Ed.

[2]* This refers to the Secretariat Abroad of the Mensheviks’ O. C.—Ed.