Written: Written on December 20, 1916
Published:
First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI.
Sent from Zurich to Geneva.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 416.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Dear Comrades,
I have to give a lecture here on the Ninth of January, 1905, but I have no material.[1] Please help me to find:
1) Mysl for 1910 (?)–1911
V. Ilyin’s articles on strikes in
Russia.[2]
2) Diskussionny Listok of the C.O. of the R.S.D.L.P. for 1910–1911 (?), my article on revolution and counterrevolution in Russia, with a summary of strike statistics.[3]
3) Trotzky: Russland in der Revolution.
4) Gorn, Mech, Cherevanin and others,
collections (legal) for 1906–07 (?). The social movement
in Russia, or something like that. One issue about
the
peasantry.[4]
(Agrarian question)
5) Maslov, Vol. II. The peasant movement in 1905–06.[5]
6) The Social Movement in Russia. The five-volume collection of Potresov and Co.
7) Moscow in
1905[6]
and other 1905–06 pamphlets. Anything you have.
Please send what you have, or mark off on this note what
there is and what can be sent over.
Regards,
Yours,
Lenin
P.S. I sent Guilbeaux my theses on work among the Left in the Swiss Social-Democratic Party, and asked him to send them on to you.[7] Pass them on also to Noah and Stepko.
[1] Lenin read his lecture on the 1905 revolution in German at a meeting arranged by working-class youth at the Zurich People’s House on January 22 (9), 1917. For the text of the lecture, see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 236–53.
[2] Lenin’s article “Strike Statistics in Russia” appeared in the magazine Mysl (Thought) No. 1, December 1910, and No. 2, January 1911 (see present edition, Vol. 16, pp. 393–421).
[3] Diskussionny Listok (The Discussion Bulletin) No. 3, April 29 (May 12), 1911, carried Lenin’s article “The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia”, whose second section contains a summing up of the statistics of the strikes in Russia referred to by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 16, pp. 374–92).
[4] A collection of articles by Vl. Gorn, V. Mech and Cherevanin, The Struggle of Social Forces in the Russian Revolution, Moscow. Issue Three, The Peasantry and the Revolution.
[5] Pyotr Maslov’s book, The Agrarian Question in Russia, Vol. II, The Crisis of the Peasant Economy and the Peasant Movement, St. Petersburg, Obshchestvennaya Polza Publishers, 1908.
[6] The book Moscow in December 1905, published in Moscow in 1906. For Lenin’s review of it, see present edition, Vol. 11, pp. 171–78.
[7] A reference to the theses “Tasks of the Left Zimmerwaldists in the Swiss Social-Democratic Party”, written in late October or early November 1916, and published as a leaflet in French in 1918 (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 137–48).
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