1.   What measures have you taken in pursuance of the decision of the Council of People's Commissars to move from the front the necessary forces to suppress the uprising in the Urals and Don1.

2. Have you issued an order to the army concerning the rebellion in the Don and the Urals? I am informing you of the draft of our proclamation on this subject2*. This draft will be discussed today in the Council of People's Commissars1*.

(3) We believe that after yesterday's statement made to you by Petliura, the Rada has clearly and decisively taken the side of the Kadet-Kornilov and Kaleda counter-revolution. We are in favor of Soviet power in the independent republic of Ukraine, but not in favor of the counter-revolutionary Kaledin Rada. Consider this firmly in all measures and steps.

Lenin and Trotsky2*.

Published - "Voprosy istorii CPSU", 1960, No. 4, p. 161 (p. 3).

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 23619 - copy.

1*In the copy further marked: "Written by the hand of Vol. Trotsky".

2* In the copy, further notes: "Written by the hand of Comrade Lenin", "(From the archive of Comrade Trotsky)".

1In the south of the Urals the rebellion against Soviet power was raised by A.I.Dutov. On November 1 (14), 1917 he issued an order to declare war on Soviet power, and on November 15 (28) Cossack detachments under his command occupied the city of Orenburg. Soviet troops moved against the Dutovites in January 1918 and the first serious defeat was inflicted on them near Kargala on January 16 (29), and two days later they liberated the city of Orenburg. The battles with the Dutovites were fought with varying success until the fall of 1918, when they joined Kolchak's army.

On the Don rebellion was raised by A.M.Kaledin, he imposed martial law in the Donbass on October 25 (November 7), 1917. Soviet units began active actions against Kaledin's Cossack troops on December 25, 1917 (January 7, 1918). After the liberation of Taganrog (January 28 (February 10), 1918) and the beginning of the offensive on Rostov, the collapse of the rebellion became obvious. January 29 (February 11), 1918. Kaledin resigned as ataman and shot himself.

November 225 (December 8), 1917. The Council of People's Commissars adopted two appeals: "To the entire population" about the fight against counterrevolutionary mutinies of Kaledin and Dutov and "From the Council of People's Commissars to the labor Cossacks" (see: Decrees of Soviet power. Vol. I, pp. 154-155).