Written: 2 November 1922
First Published: Pravda No. 252, November 7, 1922; Published according to the manuscript
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, page 397
Translated: David Skvirsky and George Hanna
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David Walters &
R. Cymbala
Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Dear Comrades,
I cordially greet you on the occasion of the fifth anniver-sary of the October Revolution. My desire is that we should in the next five years gain by peaceful efforts no less than we have gained up to now by force of arms.
November 2, 1922
Yours,
Lenin