V. I.

Lenin

493

To:   THE CENTRAL COLLEGIUM OF AGITATIONAL CENTRES

30. XII. 1919

Central Collegium of Agitational
Centres [1]

I recommend the bearer, Comrade Maria Movshovich, whom I have known personally for many years, as a most
loyal Party worker, and I earnestly request that she be
treated with complete confidence and given every assistance,
in particular that she be allowed just now ten days’ leave
of absence to restore her health. [2]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, C.P.C.

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Notes:
[1]
The Central Collegium of Agitational Centres was established by
a decision of the Council of Defence on May 13, 1919, for the
purpose of organising centres of agitation and education at railway
junctions and troop entrainment points

[2]
On the previous day, December 29, 1919, Lenin received
Maria Movshovich in his office in the Kremlin. She had come
to Moscow from the front because her husband had fallen ill with
typhus and her daughter was left without anyone to look after
her. Lenin talked to her about her work in the Red Army and the
situation at the front. On the following day he visited her and
promised his help in arranging her personal affairs.