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

V. I. Lenin

629

To: G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written: Written on July 7, 1920
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, pages 398b-399a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Zinoviev,

I am sending the preface to_Imperialism_.[1]

Please have also the Basle Manifesto of 1912 reprinted as an appendix. (It should not be difficult to find the German text for you surely have Grinberg’s “archives”, etc.)

I have received your theses on the Soviets and the conditions for their establishment, but have only managed to skim lightly through them, I do not object.

Greetings,
Lenin

7/VII.

What about my speeches and reports at the Congress?[2]Is it necessary to prepare them in German or French? I think the opening speech (and others) should be in Russian(for, almost certainly, they will be in theatres with Russian audience). They will be translated. And since there are the theses I propose, while referring to them, to speak extremely briefly. Your opinion? (The agrarian report by Marchlewski; for me the national report and the _opening_speech, only?)

Notes

[1] See present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 189–94.—Ed.

[2] See Note 414.