Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN OR L. M. KARAKHAN AND A LETTER TO A. A. JOFFE, J. A. BERZIN AND V. V. VOROVSKY

Published: First published in 1957 in the journal Novaya i Noveishaya Istoria No. 4. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 151^c-152^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrades Chicherin or Karakhan

Will you please send to Berlin tomorrow, Friday, 12 copies of my article against Kautsky from Pravda^[1] for Joffe, Berzin and Vorovsky, and the following brief letter from me to them:

Dear Comrades,

I am very well aware of the shortcomings of my too brief article against Kautsky. Nevertheless, it is necessary for us, as quickly as possible, to take a stand, to express our opinion. Will you please have it translated and published as a leaflet.

Lenin

10/X. 1918

Notes

[1] This refers to the article “The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky” (see present edition, Vol. 28, pp. 105–13). The article was published in Pravda on October 11, 1918.