V. I.   Lenin

26

To:   KARL RADEK

Written: Written on January 14 (27), 1918
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 57^b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Dear Radek,

Trotsky or Kamenev will inform you of my point of view. I fundamentally and radically disagree with you. You are falling into the trap which the imperialists of both groups are setting the Republic of Soviets.^[1]

With best regards,
Yours,
Lenin

Notes

[1] At the time of the Communist Party’s efforts to extricate Soviet Russia from the imperialist war K. Radek’s standpoint was that of the “Left Communists”.