V. I.

Lenin

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To:   S. G. SHAHUMYAN [1]

Dear Comrade, I found your letter on my return home. Be sure and send
as much material as you can about, the nationalities problem in the Caucasus (since you, unfortunately , cannot
write yourself), send us both the article by Kostrov and his
booklets, reports by the delegates translated into Russian
(I hope you will find someone to do this), statistics of nationalities in the Caucasus and material on the relations between
the nationalities in the Caucasus, in Persia, Turkey and
Russia. In a word, send everything there is and that you
can collect. Don’t forget also to look for comrades in the
Caucasus who could write articles about the problem of nationalities there.

Greetings and wishes for success. [2]

Yours,
V. Ilyich