Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

TO THE COMRADES STUDYING AT SCHOOL IN BOLOGNA329could be organised there. The travelling expenses couldbe raised in the following way: 1) The organisers of the Caprischool borrowed 500 francs from the Bolsheviks. Now theyhave money and will probably repay their debt to the Party,i.e., to the Central Committee Bureau Abroad. I, on mypart, am prepared to make efforts to get this money allocatedto cover the expenses of the journey from Bolognato Paris and I think that the Bolshevik whom we have delegatedto the Central Committee Bureau Abroad will doeverything in his power to help. 2) If 500 francs will notbe enough (I do not know how many students there are atBologna and how many could make the journey), there isanother 1,500 francs that the plenum of the C.C. assignedfor the school commission with which the organisers of theBologna school broke off connections. I think it would bepossible to get this money assigned for a course of lecturesin Paris for students who might wish to come over from Bologna.Paris is big enough for the thing to be arranged there quitesecretly (there are districts where there are no Russians atall), moreover, it could be arranged somewhere in the outlyingsuburbs.In closing I express my thanks to the students at Bolognafor their comradely invitation and hope that my proposalabout coming to Paris will be accepted.With comradely greetings,N. LeninWritten November 20(December 3), 1910First printed in 1911 inPublished according to the copythe “Report of the Second in N. K. Krupskaya’s handwritingSocial-Democratic Collegeof Propaganda and Agitationfor Workers”.Published by the Vperyod group