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639 TO THE NARROW COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS I refused to sign because it is too sweeping and vague. I propose that it be redrafted more exactly (what, in concrete terms, does “to take into the network” mean?) and submitted a second time together with the instructions. 425
Lenin 15/VII.
Written on July 1 5 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 5 9 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI 640 TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO L. B. KAMENEV Kamenev 1. The utmost attention must be paid to collecting En- glish writings showing that trade agreements with the So- * This refers to Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder (see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 17- 118).—Ed. 405 TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO L. B. KAMENEV. JULY 17, 1920 viet Republics are more advantageous to the British bour- geoisie than unprofitable and even ruinous attempts to crush them. It is necessary to collect such writings for us, and besides this, to discuss with knowledgeable people whether in addition it would not be expedient to employ some kind of literary bureau or agency for the publication of such pamphlets, for giving lectures, and for their dis- tribution, etc. You, of course, know whom one should con- sult in the first place about this. 2. It is necessary to organise through special people the regular collection, purchase, without stinting money, and dispatch to us in 5 copies, of books, articles, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, particularly in English, but also in other languages, on questions of modern economics. As an example, Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace. This is the sort of publication that should be collected syste- matically. 3. Do the same, but only through special people, for the collection and dispatch to us in 20 copies of periodical publications of all kinds, and especially pamphlets and minutes of the following four trends: 1—communist, 2— Centrist (for example, the Independent Labour Party in Britain), 3—anarchist or near to it, 4—syndicalist, etc.
4. All this should be properly organised by a legal agreement, through someone who must be a British subject and not a Communist. 5. Please send me personally: 1—good recent reference books and summary statistical publications, geographical, political and economic, particularly in English and French, which are more easily obtainable in London, and 2—two good thermos flasks. Lenin Dictated by telephone on July 1 7 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from in Collected Works, the typewritten copy Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 V. I. L E N I N 406
641 TO THE POLISH BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.) 28. VII. 1920 I recommend the bearer, Comrade Ivan Lukich
a Polish worker, Social-Democrat since 1894. I know him well from exile in 1897-1900. Please have confidence in him and give him assistance. V. Ulyanov (Lenin) Member of the C.C., R.C.P. First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 642 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE The peace proposal by the Poles gives us an opportunity for more systematic use of the troops which it was intended to transfer from the Caucasian Front to the Western Front. I propose, therefore, that the Council of Defence draft a decision as follows: 1 . The troops of the Caucasian Front to march through the entire Ukraine, the route being so calculated that each volost (of the approximately 1,900 volosts of the Ukraine) is passed through twice, first by a cavalry unit and then, after an interval, an infantry unit, to fulfil (and then check fulfilment of) the following tasks: (a) the collection of food (according to the quotas to be requisitioned); (b) the formation locally, i.e., in every village, of a
in barns, in houses of priests, landowners, the rich, etc.), this stock to be guarded by the local peasants on their responsibility. This double stock is to serve as an exchange fund; from this stock held by the peasants, grain will be taken after the local peasants have been supplied
407 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE C.L.D. JULY 1920 with goods, Russian and foreign, by agreement with the local peasants; (c) the compilation (and checking) of a list of “respons-
each village, depending on its size, to be selected from the local rich peasants starting from the top, i.e., according to wealth). The “responsible” peasants are to be personally answerable for the fulfilment of food and other assign- ments of the authorities. After the departure of the troops, the special task of the local authorities will be to ensure the proper and safe keeping of this list (for non-fulfilment of this task—death sentence); (d) the disarming of the rich peasants. Complete collection of arms. Responsibility for undiscovered arms rests on the commander of the army unit; for non-declaration of arms it rests on the person with whom they are found (death sentence), and on the whole group of “responsible” peasants (a fine, not in money, but in grain and articles; con- fiscation of property, arrest; work in the mines); (e) assistance in sowing the fields, in repairs to agricul- tural implements, and other necessary work (guard- ing stores or checking the guard over them, work on the railways, etc.) (guarding stores of salt, etc.). 2. For the purposes indicated above, a commissar or instructor to be added to each army unit (to its Communist cell) (muster 1,000 people if necessary from the Petrograd, Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk workers) to control fulfilment of the tasks mentioned. 3. In “stubborn” volosts or villages, the army units either to organise a “third visit” (by troops) or to remain longer billeted (up to 2 weeks) for punishment and correc- tion.
4. Part of these decisions to he put through the Defence Council, part through the Council of the Labour Army and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukraine. 5. A highly popular leaflet to be published for the peas- ants to explain matters in general, and the idea of the stocks
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A commission to be set up at once for publishing such a leaflet, and a series of them, as well as a number of in- structions. For drafting these proposals, a commission to be set up at once consisting of Comrades Bryukhanov and Sklyan- sky. Comrade Stalin to be asked to be the chairman of the commission.
Chairman, Council of Defence Written at the end of July 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV 643 TELEGRAM TO I. N. SMIRNOV In code by direct line Smirnov, Chairman, Siberian Revolutionary Committee Omsk The Commander - in - Chief has asked for cartridges and rifles from Siberia. This demand must be fulfilled immediate- ly, without any delay, and the shipments dispatched so as to arrive with maximum speed. Ascertain whether more of these articles can be given, and if so, give them. Check execution.
Written on August 2 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the text in in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV Sklyansky’s handwriting 644 TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN 426
In code Stalin: I do not quite understand why you are dissatisfied with the separation of the fronts. Let me know your reasons. It seemed to me to be necessary since the Wrangel danger is increasing. As to a deputy, let me know your opinion
409 TO L. B. KAMENEV. AUGUST 1920 about a candidate. Please inform me also what promises the Commander - in - Chief is late with. Our diplomacy is subordinated to the C.C. and will never disrupt our successes, if the Wrangel danger does not cause vacil- lations within the Central Committee. From the Kuban area and the Don Region we are getting alarming, even desperate, telegrams about the menacing growth of the insurgent movement. They are insisting on more speed in defeating Wrangel.
Written on August 3 , 1 9 2 0 Sent to Lozovaya First published in 1 9 5 9 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI 645 TO I. T. SMILGA AND M. N. TUKHACHEVSKY In code by direct line 3. VIII. 1920 Comrade Smilga and Comrade Tukhachevsky All measures should be taken to promulgate in Poland on the widest possible scale the Manifesto of the Polish Revolutionary Committee. Use our aircraft for this. Report what you have done. Lenin First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the text in in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV Sklyansky’s handwriting
We should say (in regard to the frontier) that we shall give more (the line will be farther to the east), 427
but not say: “much” more, much farther to the east. Written in August, not later than 5, 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1
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647 TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN Stalin I apologise for the delay in replying, due to the end of the work of the Comintern. The plenary meeting of the Central Committee did not adopt any decisions * that alter the established policy. Britain is threatening war, she does not want to wait later than Monday, August 9. I don’t much believe the threats. Kamenev in London is also stand- ing firm so far, and I am convinced that your successes against Wrangel will help to put an end to the vacillations within the Central Committee. In general, however, much still depends on Warsaw and its fate. **
Written on August 7 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 5 9 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI 648 TELEGRAM TO I. T. SMILGA, F. E. DZERZHINSKY AND J. MARCHLEWSKI In code
Smilga Dzerzhinsky Marchlewski Your reports are too laconic. Details about the temper of the agricultural labourers and Warsaw workers are es- sential and urgently needed, as well as about political prospects in general. I earnestly request you to reply today if possible. Lenin Written on August 9 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV * Lenin marked off the remaining text of the telegram and wrote in the margin: “In code.”—Ed. ** See also present edition, Vol. 31, p. 266.—Ed. 411 TELEGRAM TO A. G. BELOBORODOV. AUGUST 10, 1920 649 TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET 10. VIII. 1920 Please publish an atlas,
graphical Institute. Petrograd, September 1, 1918), 1) i.e., in a single small-sized book; 2) maps each on 2 pages of .the book, if possible without folding the sheets; 3) on each map the new boundaries of the gubernias (with the same colour as in Ilyin’s for each gubernia).
4) railways, indicating every station; 5) new state frontiers; 6) separately: regions and territories which have fallen away from the former Russian Empire (on a separate map);
7) append some historical maps indicating the line of the fronts (of the Civil War) at various periods from 1917 to 1920. Lenin First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV 650 TELEGRAM TO A. G. BELOBORODOV In code 10. VIII. 1920 Beloborodov Council of the Caucasian Labour Army Rostov-on-Don or present whereabouts Armavir, etc. Please wire how matters stand in regard to the revolts in the Caucasus and on the Kuban, whether they are in- creasing or weakening, whether all measures have been V. I. L E N I N 412
taken, whether there has been an appreciable arrival of new troops, whether there are enough of them, and other details. 428
Lenin Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
* Danishevsky From Chicherin you will learn of our great diplomatic success in Britain in regard to Poland. I hope you will be fully able to take this into account and cleverly include in the terms both Warsaw, as we agreed, and the firmest guarantee of all the rest. Written on August 1 1 , 1 9 2 0 First published in part in 1 9 3 4 in the book: K. Danishevsky, S. Kamenev, Vospominaniya o Lenine (Recollections of Lenin), Moscow First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 652 TO N. N. KRESTINSKY 11. VIII. 1920 Comrade Krestinsky Comrade Shapovalov (Alexander Isidorovich) is one of the old Party comrades. A Petrograd worker. I knew him very well in the Party while still abroad, where he always worked like a cart-horse. * Transmitted by direct line in code.—Ed. 413 TO THE NARROW C.P.C. AUGUST 1920 Now he is ill. He is badly in need of extra nourishment. Cannot it be arranged for him to use the Kremlin dining- room? I earnestly request this and a ration (increased) for him, and help of every kind. Lenin First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1
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11. VIII. 1920 Comrade Krestinsky, Comrade Lao, Chairman of the Union of Chinese Workers in Russia, needs to confer with you on a number of ques- tions. Will you please give him this possibility. With communist greetings, Lenin First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1
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Narrow Council. Please consider the request (§ b in the Orgbureau partly). It should be complied with to a certain extent, for the strug- gle against illiteracy is a task more important than any other. Lenin Written in August, not earlier than 1 1 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 5 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXV V. I. L E N I N 414
655 TO D. I. KURSKY Comrade Kursky, Who is it publishes so badly? 431
Chaos. Even the heading is not clear. A collection of trivia—and of proclamations. Who edited it—some stupid person or a saboteur?
to be published in a similar volume. Lenin Written in August, not later than 1 2 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 5 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXV 656 TO E. M. SKLYANSKY Should not Smilga be told that it is necessary (after the harvesting) to take into the army absolutely all adult men? He should. With Budyonny moving to the south, it is necessary to strengthen the north. Written on August 1 2 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1
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Comrade Krestinsky, Is it not possible somehow to make a check through a strict commission? Voznesensky was working effectively. Is there not some irregularity about his removal? perso- nal? squabbling?
12/8. 1920 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 415 LETTER TO CHICHERIN AND TELEGRAM TO KAMENEV 658 TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV Zinoviev
Smolny Petrograd Krzhizhanovsky reports that the Chairman of the Hous- ing Committee for the Poor, at No. 15, Alexandrovsky Pros- pekt, Petrogradskaya Storona, is threatening Professor Hein- rich Graftio, who occupies flat No. 3, with house-searches and confiscation of his property. Graftio is a respected professor, who is on our side. He must be protected against the arbitrary action of the Chair- man of the Housing Committee for the Poor. Please report fulfilment.
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars Written on August 1 3 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the text in Collected Works, in Fotieva’s handwriting Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 signed by Lenin
14. VIII. 1920 Comrade Chicherin, I hope you will fully inform Kamenev of all the facts showing that France and Daszynski are torpedoing the meet-
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