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Letter to Anna Ulyanova, November 8, 1908
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 37, page 395
November 8, 1908
Dear Anyuta,
Today I received postcards from you and Mother with the new address. Did you get my letter addressed to Presnya, 44,4? I am afraid to send a big manuscript to your private address or any other except that of some publisher. If you can find me such an address, I will send the manuscript immediately. In the meantime I shall await an answer to this letter. Incidentally, if the censor turns out to be very strict the word âpopovshchinaâ can everywhere be changed to âfideismâ with a footnote to explain it (Fideism is a doctrine which substitutes faith for knowledge, or which generally attaches significance to faith).[1] This is for emergenciesâit is to explain the nature of the concessions I am making.
All the best, many kisses for Mother.
Yours,
V. Ulyanov
- â In the first edition of Leninâs Materialism and Empirio-criticism. Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy the word âfideismâ was used instead of popovshchina, a derogatory Russian term for âclericalismâ, although âpopovshchinaâ remained unchanged in a number of places. Lenin also suggested changing the word to âShamanismâ; his sister Anna, in a letter dated January 27, 1909, replied by saying, ââShamanismâ has come too late. Anyway, is it any better?â The explanatory note was given in the Preface to the first and subsequent editions (see Collected Works, Vol. 14, p. 19).