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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, May 24, 1916
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 541b-542a.
Yuriâs letter has made me very pessimistic ... itâs a swindle.[1]
I donât agree with your amendments, and so I have decided for the time being to send my letter to Alexander without them[2] (for in bargaining one must not start small when dealing with such sordid hucksters).
Iâm prepared to make concessions only in the discussion and income.
Change of name is essential, as it is of a basically different character (not what Kommunist wanted to be); besides, there are vital practical reasons for a change of name.
Alexander should not be put on the Editorial Board: this would mean calling everything into question and risking falling out with A. This is extremely harmful.
It will work only if we here have the majority. Otherwise itâs of no use.
(If Sâil vous plaĂŽt were to remove Yuri, that wouldnât be bad; but I doubt it.)
Send me Nash Golos containing the statement of Martov & Co.[3]
Salut,
Lenin
Iâm in a hurry. These few lines for the time being.
No time to go and post it.
Nadya suggests 2 editorial boards: an enlarged one and a narrow one (you and I+Bukharin). But this doesnât work out.
- â This refers to Pyatakovâs letter of May 18, 1916, from Christiania (Oslo) addressed to Lenin and Zinoviev, in which he stated the terms on which he considered it possible to continue the talks concerning renewed publication of Kommunist.
- â See present edition, Vol. 36, pp. 393â96.âEd.
- â This probably refers to L. Martovâs article âWhat Follows from the âRight to National Self-Determinationâ â published in the newspaper Nash Golos Nos. 3 and 4 for January 17 and 24, 1916.