Date: 1917-12-30
Source: ru:LS/v34

10
LENIN COLLECTION
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST KALEDIN IN THE DON REGION
23,240
ORDER TO THE SUPREME COMMANDER
December 8 (21), 1917
The Supreme Commander, who is departing for Moscow and from there to the south to conduct military operations against Kaledin, is hereby obligated to report daily—via direct line (either in person or through his aide—to the Council of People’s Commissars on the specific individuals he designates, or those designated by other military authorities, as the responsible officers charged with executing particular operational directives, especially concerning troop movements, troop mobilization, and command arrangements.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original document, signed by
V. I. Lenin.
11,085
TELEGRAM ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SUPREME COMMANDER AND THE UKRAINIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
December 30, 1917 (January 12, 1918)
The Council of People’s Commissars expresses its confidence that the Supreme Commander will henceforth, as before, maintain full coordination with the central Ukrainian Soviet authority—which the Council of People’s Commissars has warmly welcomed*—and with the Extraordinary Commissioner appointed by the Council of People’s Commissars.
* On December 12 (25), 1917, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee was established in Kharkiv. In a telegram addressed to Lenin, the All-Ukrainian CEC, dated December 13 (26), declared the unity of interests between the peoples of Soviet Russia and Ukraine. On December 16 (29), the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR responded with a congratulatory telegram to what it described as “the truly popular Soviet power in Ukraine” (see Documents on the History of the Civil War in the USSR, vol. I, 1940, pp. 54–57).

1917–1918
11,086
RESOLUTION OF THE SOVNARKOM
January 1 (14), 1918
The Council of People’s Commissars welcomes the decisive measures taken by the Supreme Commander in the struggle against the Kaledinists and their collaborators; at the same time, it resolves that the commander-in-chief of the armed forces shall be empowered to impose repressive measures—up to and including the assignment of those guilty of causing unemployment and famine to forced labor in the mines—against capitalist saboteurs who threaten to plunge society into economic chaos.
24,114
TO THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR WAR
January 13 (26), 1918
I request that as many cartridges as possible be issued to the comrade who is submitting this request—for Nagant revolvers, Browning pistols of all three calibers, and other types of ammunition—for the use of the Supreme Commander. The submitter is Nikolai Kuzmich Kuzmin, Chief of the Red Guard of the Kharkiv District.
Lenin
ORDERS CONCERNING THE CONFLICT WITH THE ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT
TO THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR WAR
December 31, 1917 (January 13, 1918)
It is hereby ordered that all members of the Romanian Embassy and the Romanian Mission, as well as every single employee serving in the various offices of the Embassy, Consulate, and other official Romanian institutions,* be arrested without delay.
* The repressive measures against the Romanian Embassy were taken in response to the hostile actions undertaken by the Romanian authorities toward the Russian revolutionary troops stationed in Romania. The Romanian authorities had refused to permit these troops to pass into Soviet Russia, instead encircling them and proceeding to disarm them.