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Letter to Inessa Armand, After June 4, 1915
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Sörenberg (Switzerland) to Berne. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 454b-455.
Dear Friend,[1]
I have written to you once or twice, but truth to tell, there is little news here. The news from Russia is not bad, you will read it all yourself soon, I hope, when you come here. You donât mention a word about what length of time your dentist has appointed for your treatment. Even approximately? You should travel either by post-chaise (up to FlĂŒhli twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. from SchĂŒpfheim, and to us, to Sörenberg, only once a day, at 9 a.m. from SchĂŒpfheim). To catch the morning post (that is, the post-chaise), I think you must start out from Berne at 5.30 a.m. and wait /2 hours at SchĂŒpfheim. But if you leave Berne at 2.05, as we did, the post-chaise will take you only as far as FlĂŒhli; from there you will have to hire a horse-drawn vehicle (for that purpose you will have to telephone from SchĂŒpfheimâthere is a restaurant there opposite the station. The keeper for 10 pfg. will telephone us here, Hotel Marienthal in Sörenberg, saying you are coming and asking for a horse-drawn carriage to be sent: in that case they will just manage to get to FlĂŒhli from here and bring you down here from FlĂŒhli).
The fare by post-chaise is fr. 1.20 to FlĂŒhli+2 frs. from FlĂŒhli to Sörenberg.
Horse and carriage here costs 4 frs. per person (6 frs. for 2 people) from FlĂŒhli to Sörenberg.
Your letter for some reason travelled to Lucerne! I wonder why? Is it because you wrote Sörenberg in one line? Or should you not add via SchĂŒpheim?
All the best. See you soon,
Yours,
Lenin
P.S. I wrote Grigory yesterday about inviting Grimm to Kommunist. Today I read Trotskyâs answer (to Kommunist) in Nashe Slovo.[2] We must be extremely careful, in inviting Grimm, not to risk a refusal. Tell Grigory this.
Another request: when you see Kasparov, ask him to obtain the official address of the Bureau (in Geneva? or in Berne?), which undertakes to forward money to Russian prisoners of war in Germany (letters as well as money, but chiefly money). It is very important to have the official address, so that I can apply to them and be sure the money will not get lost.
Another request (tut-tut! Our tons of things and requests will crush you completely, eh?): buy citric acid in crystals (ZitronensĂ€ure). Itâs a bad jobâgoing out into the country after everybody else!!
There is still no reply from NeuchĂątel.[3]
Would you believe it!
Au revoir,
Yours,
Lenin
When opportunity offers, ask Radek before your departure whether he would like to come. If he does, we shall invite him.
Bring 15â20 copies of the Announcement of Kommunist.[4]
- â These words are in English in the original.âEd.
- â The Invitation to Trotsky to write for Kommunist was sent by G. L. Pyatakov and Yevgenia Bosh in spite of Leninâs opinion. By way of answer Trotsky published âAn Open Letter to the Editors of Kommunistâ in Nashe Slovo No. 105 for June 4, 1915, refusing to contribute and launching a fierce attack against the Bolsheviks.
The journal Kommunist was organised by Lenin and published by the Editorial Board of the newspaper Sotsial-Demokrat jointly with G. L. Pyatakov and Yevgenia Bosh, who financed its publication. The Editorial Board included also N. I. Bukharin. One (double) number of the journal was issued.
Lenin planned to make Kommunist the mouthpiece of the Left Social-Democrats. Serious disagreements, however, shortly arose between the editors of Sotsial-Demokrat on the one band and Bukharin, Pyatakov and Bosh on the other, which came to a head after the appearance of No. 1â2 of the journal.
Nashe Slovo (Our Word)âa Menshevik newspaper, published with Trotskyâs close co-operation in Paris from January 1915 to September 1916 in lieu of Golos. - â Lenin wrote to the library at NeuchĂątel asking for books to be sent to him in Sörenberg.
- â This refers to the Announcement concerning publication of the journal Kommunist written apparently with Leninâs close co-operation. It was printed as a leaflet dated May 20, 1915, and distributed among the RSDLP organisations in Russia and abroad, as well as among Left West-European Social-Democrats. The text of the Announcement under the heading âFrom the Editorsâ was published also in the journal Kommunist.