THE LETTER TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI
From THE LETTER TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI
February l7, 1917
Dear A.M.,
We had your letter today, and were very glad to get it. For a long time we did not know that you
were in America, and had no letters from you except one, telling us that you were leaving America.
I wrote to you on January 7-8 (the day the letter was forwarded from Stockholm—all the letters
direct from here to America are intercepted by the French!), but evidently this letter (with an
article for Novy Mir) did not reach you while you were still in New York.
Pleasant as it was to learn from you of the victory of N. Iv. and Pavlov in Novy Mir (I get this
newspaper devilishly irregularly; it must be the fault of the post and not the dispatch department
of the paper itself), it was just as sad to read about the bloc between Trotsky and the Right for
the struggle against N. Iv. What a swine this Trotsky is—Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right
against the Zimmerwald Left!!He ought to be exposed (by you) if only in a brief letter to
Sotsial-Demokrat!
V. I. Lenin, Collected Works,
Vol. 35, p. 285
February l7, 1917
Dear A.M.,
We had your letter today, and were very glad to get it. For a long time we did not know that you
were in America, and had no letters from you except one, telling us that you were leaving America.
I wrote to you on January 7-8 (the day the letter was forwarded from Stockholm—all the letters
direct from here to America are intercepted by the French!), but evidently this letter (with an
article for Novy Mir) did not reach you while you were still in New York.
Pleasant as it was to learn from you of the victory of N. Iv. and Pavlov in Novy Mir (I get this
newspaper devilishly irregularly; it must be the fault of the post and not the dispatch department
of the paper itself), it was just as sad to read about the bloc between Trotsky and the Right for
the struggle against N. Iv. What a swine this Trotsky is—Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right
against the Zimmerwald Left!!He ought to be exposed (by you) if only in a brief letter to
Sotsial-Demokrat!
V. I. Lenin, Collected Works,
Vol. 35, p. 285
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