697. To V. V. ADORATSKY

First published in part in 1924 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 3. Published in full in 1933 in the book, V. V. Adoratsky, K voprosu o nauchnoi biografii Lenina (Some Ideas About a Scientific Biography of Lenin), Moscow. Printed from the original. · page 527

10/IV.1922.

Comrade Adoratsky:

I am enclosing what you have requested.^[1] I am writing to Kamenev.^[2] I am ill and will probably be unable to see you or help with Marx’s letters. Kamenev will help you; so you will have someone to consult with. Concentrate on the letters: this is an important international undertaking. Select the most important ones. The notes should be brief, clear and precise (+ a comparison of Marx’s comments with those of such-and-such “authoritative” bourgeois reactionary scientists).

Regards!
Yours,
Lenin

Notes

[1] See previous document.—Ed.

[2] See next document.—Ed.