Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

80

To: G. V. PLEKHANOV

Written: Written in Geneva (local mall)
Published: First published in full in 1928. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 34, page 199.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: D. Moros
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November 18, 1903

Georgi Valentinovich,

I am sorry that I am a day late with my article^[1] ; I was not well yesterday and in general the work is going terribly hard these last few days.

The article turned out longer than I thought and had to be divided into two parts; in the second part I shall make a detailed analysis of Novobrantsev and draw conclusions.

I consider that my article should have a signature and so I am taking a pseudonym, otherwise, pending the announcement, it will probably be inconvenient for you.

Will you please also insert my statement^[2] appended herewith in the issue of Iskra containing the announcement about the Congress. Of course, in the event of complete peace being established in the Party (which I am hoping for) and if you were to find it necessary, I could, among other peace terms, discuss also the non-publication of this statement.

Yours sincerely,
N. Lenin

Notes

[1]The reference is to “The Narodnik-like Bourgeois and Distraught Narodism” (see present edition, Vol. 7).—Ed.

[2] “To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P.” (see present edition, Vol. 7).—Ed.