Original sentence: The short novel The Blue Notebook (Sinyaya Tetrad) appeared in 1961; it is set during Lenin's stay on the Karelian isthmus in the summer of 1917 and brings Lenin face to face both with ordinary people and with Vladimir Zinovyev, who was still conidered a traitor and an imperialist agent at the time of writing
Edited sentence: The short novel The Blue Notebook (Sinyaya Tetrad) appeared in 1961; it is set during Lenin's stay on the Karelian isthmus in the summer of 1917 and brings Lenin face to face both with ordinary people and with Grigory Zinovyev, who was still conidered a traitor and an imperialist agent at the time of writing