Letter to Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, July 16, 1903

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16/VII. 03

Dear V. D.,

G. V. told me that you can get from one of your acquaintances a Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia. If so, I would kindly ask you to get me the volumes containing the articles:

Peasantry,

Serfdom

Serf economy,

CorvĂŠe,

Quit-rent.

I am greatly in need of the reference material in these volumes for an article I am writing in a hurry.[1] Please let me know if you can get them.

Yours,

Lenin

Just received the pamphlet by Engels[2] and am sending it on to you. Ask V. M. to translate all the Vorbemerkung[3] and return the pamphlet to me without delay.

When could she return it?

Just received your report.[4] Thanks!

  1. ↑ Lenin was working at the time on the article “Reply to Criticism of Our Draft Programme” (see present edition, Vol. 6, pp. 438–53).—Ed.
  2. ↑ A reference to Engels’s “The Peasant Question in France and Germany” (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works in one volume, Moscow, 1968, pp. 633–50).
  3. ↑ Prefatory notes.—Ed.
  4. ↑ The reference is to the report “Division and Sectarianism in Russia” written by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich at the request of Lenin and Plekhanov for the Second Congress of the RSDLP Later the report was published in the Social-Democratic paper for members of religious sects Rassvet (Daybreak) No. 6–7 for 1904. The draft resolution on the publication of a periodical for members of religious sects was written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 6, p. 475).