Written: Written in the middle of November 1913
Published:
First published in 1924 in Lenin Miscellany I.
Sent from Cracow to Capri.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 266.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Dear A. M.,
I have received the novel[1] and your letter. My opinion is that the novel should be shelved, since you are not in favour. I enclose a letter from Kamenev, who read the novel (I have not read it yet).
We shall write to St. Petersburg to have them hold it up.
I enclose my letter of yesterday[2]: don’t be angry that I lost my temper. Perhaps I did not understand you aright? Perhaps it was as a joke that you wrote “for a time”? Perhaps you weren’t serious about God-building, either?
I entreat you to get the best possible treatment.
Yours,
Lenin
[1] Voitinsky’s manuscript (see p. 265 of this volume).
[2] See present edition, Vol. 35, pp. 121–24.
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