V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. MOLOTOV, KH. G. RAKOVSKY, I. I. SCHWARZ, G. L. PYATAKOV, M. L. RUKHIMOVICH

21.XI.1921

Comrade Molotov

Comrade Rakovsky

Comrade “Semyon” (Schwarz) of the All-Russia
Miners’ Union C.C.

Comrade Pyatakov

{{ in Donbas }}

Comrade Rukhimovich

Dear Comrade:

I enclose Comrade Remeiko’s pamphlet. [1]

You need only run your eye over a page and a half (13 and 14) to see the gist of the matter: struggle and
squabbling in Donbas.

To the conflicts and disagreements between Pyatakov and
Rukhimovich are added the disagreements between Remeiko
(and the comrades he names on p. 14) and Pyatakov and
Kalnin.

These discords and dissensions in Donbas, which is our fortress , are highly dangerous.

Please, have a look through the pamphlet (or the two pages, 13 and 14, which is quite enough) and write me at
least a couple of words on the measures which could (and
should) be taken to eliminate discords and frictions in
Donbas. [2]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to a pamphlet by Y. Remeiko, a member of the
Presidium of the C.C. of the Mineworkers’ Union, entitled Decisions of the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P., the Trade Union and the Donbas Workers (Report). MS , published in Moscow in November
1921.

[2]
The differences between executives in Donbas were discussed
at several sittings of the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee.

On November 26 and 27, 1921, the Politbureau outlined a
number of measures to ensure normal relations between and
efficient work by executives in Donbas.

On December 22, 1921, the Politbureau approved the decision
by the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
of the Ukraine, dismissing Pyatakov from the post of Chairman
of the Central Board of the Coal-Mining Industry, and appointing V. Y. Chubar instead. The Politbureau’s decision was
confirmed by a plenary meeting of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee
on December 28, 1921.

Lenin spoke of the differences in Donbas in his political report
of the C.C. to the Eleventh Congress of the Party (see present
edition, Vol. 33, pp. 296–99).