Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, Between July 11 and 30, 1915

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I am sending you the notebook: Inessa asks that it be returned when copied.[1]

I am sending Wijnkoop’s letter. Return it immediately (if useful, show it to Yuri). I shall snatch at this “little kernel” of a Left International with both hands. We must work as hard as we can to get closer together with them. I am hurrying Radek to translate the Berne resolutions.[2]

I am sending the beginning of the pamphlet (in the rough) so that we can discuss how to continue the job and turn out a “whole” piece by two authors (show it, if useful, to Yuri; perhaps they will give some money for such a thing? If not, it’s not worth while showing the rough copy).[3]

Send your comments on a separate sheet.

Return immediately.

I think that, when edited, it may turn out a popular and important (both for Russia and for Europe) body of arguments and materials.

Regards,

Lenin

Let Zina make some more copies of the report on the Vorkonferenz.[4] It has to be circulated!!

  1. ↑ What this refers to has not been established.—Ed.
  2. ↑ See present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 158–64.—Ed.
  3. ↑ A reference to the pamphlet Socialism and War (The Attitude of the RSDLP Towards the War) (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 295–338).—Ed.
  4. ↑ This refers to the letter by the delegate of the CC, RSDLP giving a report on the preliminary conference, held on July 11, 1915, in preparation for the first international socialist conference. The letter was circulated among Party organisations (Lenin Miscellany XIV, pp. 464–63).