Lenin: 9. TELEGRAM TO THE COMMITTEE FOR ELECTIONS TO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY












V. I.

Lenin



9



TELEGRAM TO THE COMMITTEE FOR ELECTIONS TO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY[2]


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Written: Written on November 30 (December 13), 1917

Published:

First published in 1958 in the journal Sovetsky Moryak No. 5.

Printed from the text of the telegraph form.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1975,

Moscow,

Volume 44,

page 48b.


Translated: Clemens Dutt


Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros


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Pskov

I remain a deputy of the Baltic Fleet and request you
to replace me by the next candidate on the Bolshevik
list.[1]

Ulyanov (Lenin)




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Notes





[1]

Similarly worded telegrams were sent to Petrograd and
Moscow.—Ed.



[2]

Lenin’s name was put on the list of candidates to the Constituent
Assembly from the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) by
five electoral areas: Petrograd—the capital, Petrograd Gubernia,
Ufa, the Baltic Fleet and the Northern Front. In addition, Lenin
was nominated as the candidate to the Constituent Assembly
from Moscow. The elections to the Constituent Assembly were
held on November 12 (25), 1917. On November 27 (December 10)
the All-Russia Committee for Elections to the Constituent
Assembly requested members of the Constituent Assembly who had been
returned by several areas to present a written statement
indicating the area for which they accepted election. Having been
elected by several areas, Lenin, too, presented such a statement. (See
also Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, Document 23.)




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