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,

Corvée,

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).