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Letter to the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet, October 21, 1920
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 35, page 460
This letter was written in response to Maxim Gorkyâs appeal to the All-Russia Commission for Improving Scientistsâ Living Conditions, in which he mentioned certain cases when scientific workers had been obliged to share too large a part of their flats with new tenants. Gorky was then chairman of the Petrograd branch of the Commission.
Dear Comrades,
In my opinion, to provide scientists with an extra room for a study, and for a laboratory, in Petrograd (a city exceptionally well off as regards apartments) is really and truly no sin. You should even have taken the initiative yourselves.
I strongly request you to get this thing moving and, if you disagree with me, to be kind enough to drop me a few words immediately, so that I see where the obstacle is.
With communist greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
October 21