Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

665

To: N. P. GORBUNOV

Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 500^c-501^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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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.