Written: Written in December 1904
Published:
First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XV.
Sent from Geneva to Russia.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 141.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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