V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v41; en:CW/CW42;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

After discussing the reports and communications made at the conference of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee with 27 delegates of the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East{123} on October 13, 1920, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee resolved:

1. To intensify the work of the Council of Nationalities under the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities and to submit a report on this work at the next meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars.

2. To order the strictest investigation of the abuses and acts of violence committed by the local Russian population against the Eastern nationalities (especially the Kalmyks, Buryat-Mongols, etc.), and to punish the guilty.

3. To issue a manifesto in the name of the supreme Soviet authority, which would reaffirm the principles of the national policy of the R.S.F.S.R. and establish more effective control over its full implementation.

4. To recognise the necessity of putting into effect autonomy, in forms corresponding to the concrete conditions, for those Eastern nationalities which do not yet have autonomous institutions, in the first place for the Kalmyks and Buryat-Mongols, instructing the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities accordingly.

5. On the agrarian question, to recognise the necessity of returning to the mountaineers of the Northern Caucasus the lands taken from them by the Great Russians, at the expense of the kulak section of the Cossack population, and to instruct the Council of People’s Commissars immediately to prepare the relevant decisions.

6. To draw up instructions for all plenipotentiaries of the Central Committee and the central Soviet authority sent from Moscow to areas inhabited by Eastern nationalities. In these instructions the main emphasis should be on explaining the duty of the plenipotentiaries to act only through the local bodies consisting of representatives of the working local population, and to regard as their principal task the struggle against the bourgeois and pseudo-communist groups of the local population, along with support for the genuinely communist groups and elements.