Marv Gandall wrote
?This is undoubtedly the
reason why Lenin greeted Kamenev upon returning to Petrograd with the words,
?What?s that garbage you?ve been writing in Pravda?? ?
What?s the source for
this quote?
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Sorry for not getting back sooner on this, but I was off in the wilds of New
Hampshire, separated from my library, and with only limited computer access.
Alright, I paraphrased from memory. The exact quote comes, via Trotsky, from
the veteran Bolshevik, Raskolnikov who, with Kamenev, was among an advance
greeting party that met Lenin's sealed train in Finland before it arrived in
Petrograd in April, 1917.
"We had hardly got into the car and sat down," writes Raskolnikov..."when
Vladimir Ilyich flung at Kamenev: 'What's this you've been writing in Pravda?
We saw several numbers and gave it to you good and proper." Such was their
meeting after a separation of seven years. But even so it was a friendly
meeting. (Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I, p.295, New York,
1980).
Jim Creegan
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