213. To THE BUREAU ABROAD OF THE R.S.D.L.P. CENTRAL COMMITTEE

To the C.C. Bureau Abroad

Written in Paris · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXV. Printed from the original. · page 260

5.XII. 10

Dear Comrades,

We have been approached by a member of the S.D. Duma group^[1] who has stated categorically that without another   thousand the paper cannot be launched.^[3] We therefore most insistently urge you to send the other thousand at once.

N. Lenin^[2]

Notes

[1] N. G. Poletayev.—Ed.

[2] The letter was also signed by G. Y. Zinoviev.—Ed.

[3] A reference to money needed to publish Zvezda. In his letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich of December 9, 1910 (see this volume, Document 214) Lenin informed him that the money had been sent.