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Letter to Nikolai Bukharin, February 2, 1922
| Author(s) | Lenin |
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| Written | 2 February 1922 |
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI . Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 459b-460a.
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Comrade Bukharin
1. I am surprised and indignant at not having heard a single word from you in reply to my telephone message on a joint conference with the II and II 1/2 Internationals.[1] Such things should be answered at least in a couple of words without delay.
2. Could you arrange for me to have someone who is a regular reader of European newspapers and those of the II and II 1/2 Internationals to draw up for me a very short list (not more than two pages for newspapers in each language) of arguments used by them over our New Economic Policy. It would be enough for me to have such a list separately from the German, French and English papers, but only, I repeat, in the shortest telegraphic style, not more than two pages for each of these languages.
Please reply.[2]
Lenin
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Comrade Bukharin
Since there is now an answer in your letter, it is superfluous to argue that one had been necessary.
Lenin
- ↑ A reference to Lenin’s letter to N. I. Bukharin and G. Y. Zinoviev of February 1, 1922, in which he wrote about the Comintern’s attitude to the forthcoming conference of representatives of the three Internationals: the Second, the Two-and-a-Half and the Comintern (see present edition, Vol. 42, pp. 393-94). At the top of the text of the letter, a secretary had written: “Keep track and hurry on with the reply.”
- ↑ On February 3, 1922, N. I. Bukharin replied to Lenin that he and G. Y. Zinoviev agreed with Lenin’s proposals in connection with the conference of the three Internationals. Bukharin also wrote that Lenin would shortly receive material on the attitude of the various groupings in the West to the New Economic Policy.