亲爱的约瑟夫·维萨里昂诺维奇: 从1928年起我就坚决主张必须认真编写和出版一部《国内战争史》。在我看来,这部书对于农民的政治教育,也就是社会主义教育是特别需要的。关于写这部书的必要性我的主要论证如下: 1.由于一系列日常生活条件,农村青年的政治教育同工人青年在政治上的成长相比,大大地落后了。 Dear Josef Vissarionovich: Since 1928 I have firmly held that we must seriously prepare and publish a “history of civil war.” In my opinion, this book is especially needed for peasants’ political education, that is, socialist education. My main arguments on the need to write this book are as follows: 1. The political education of rural youth lags far behind the political growth of young workers due to a series of daily living conditions.