665. To N. P. GORBUNOV

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 500

5.III.1922
Secret

Comrade Gorbunov:

I wanted to speak with Unschlicht about the enclosed book.^[1]

I think it looks like a “literary screen for a whiteguard organisation”.

Have a talk with Unschlicht, not by phone, and let him write me confidentially and return the book.

Lenin

Notes

[1] A reference to a collection of articles by N. A. Berdyaev, Y. M. Bukshpan, F. A. Stepun, S. L. Frank, Oswald Spengler and the Decline of Europe, published in Moscow in 1922.