To the Extraordinary Commissar Ordzhonikidze for Antonov

Rostov-on-Don

I urgently request that you do not interfere in the matter of dispatching parliamentarians and that you assist in every way in the speediest cessation of military operations. Our peace delegation, consisting of Stalin, Rakovsky, and Manuilsky, is already in Kursk.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin in the book: V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko.

*Notes on the Civil War*, Written April 29, 1918

First published in 1928 vol. 2, Moscow-Leningrad

Printed from the manuscript