130. To V. A. KARPINSKY

Written on March 24, 1917 · First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII. Sent from Zurich to Geneva. Printed from the original. · page 301

Dear Comrade,

I have sent you (through Inessa) copies of two of my articles for Pravda—for information, to co-ordinate our views.

I need them back on Monday: if necessary, send them express and take them to the station.

Be careful about blocs with the Nachalo^[1] people: we are against rapprochement with other parties, are for warning the workers against Chkheidze. Essential! Chkheidze is clearly wobbling: cf. how he is being praised in the Temps of March 22 and in many other papers. We are for the C.C. in Russia, for Pravda, for our Party, for a proletarian militia preparing the way for peace and socialism.

Greetings!

Yours, Lenin

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[1] Nachalo (The Beginning)—Menshevik-Trotskyist paper, published in Paris from September 1916 to March 1917.