AND V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

December 8, 1917

Comrades Blagnoravov and Bonch-Bruevich, The arrests which are to be carried out according to the instructions of comrade Peters have an exceptionally great importance and must be carried out with great energy*.

Special measures must be taken to prevent the destruction of documents, escapes, concealment of files, and the like.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written December 8 (21), 1917

First published incomplete in "Questions of History of the CPSU" No. 6 in 1960 from the manuscript

Printed here in full

* The reference is to the arrest of counter-revolutionaries. Ed.