V. I.

Lenin

625

To:   G. K. ORJONIKIDZE through Alliluyeva

All in code and immediate

Comrade Orjonikidze

Zinoviev is giving you an important international assignment. [1] In addition, I have gone into the matter and
I see that you retain all rights and powers through the front and through the supreme local Party body. Once more
I ask you not to fret and to be patient a little.

Moreover, you are charged with the leadership of the entire foreign and home policy of Azerbaijan and with
supervising the fulfilment of the directives of the Central
Committee and People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs
in regard to Persia, Armenia and
Georgia. [2]

Answer.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin is referring to a decision of the Politbureau of the C.C.,
R.C.P.(B.) dated June 29, 1920, for convening a congress of
peoples of the East in Baku. The decision stated: “Comrade
Orjonikidze and Comrade Stasova, together with comrades co-opted by
them, are instructed to form a bureau for convening a congress
of peoples of the East in Baku. Comrade Zinoviev is to inform