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NOTE TO E. YAROSLAVSKY1.
[January 18, 1919]
What, in your opinion, is the essence of the opposition?

1 At the Moscow Party Conference, which opened on January 18, 1919, an opposition group led by E. N. Ignatov, Lisitsyn, and some other workers of the Moscow Soviet demanded a "fundamental revision of the Soviet constitution," "liquidation of the Council of People's Commissars," and a restriction of the leading role of the party in relation to the Soviets, defending, on the question of the relationship between the center and the localities, the party and the Soviets, views in the spirit of the Sapronov group of democratic centralism. (On Lenin's speech at the conference against the opposition, see Soch., Vol. XXIII, p. 472.) The resolution proposed by the opposition was rejected by the conference. The note to Yaroslavsky, the chairman of the conference, was written by Lenin at the first session of the conference under the text of the copy of the Moscow Committee's resolutions on the issues discussed at the conference, which he had in his hands.
YAOZO
NOTE TO A. M. NIKOLAEV.
[February 24, 1919]
Nikolaev: prosecute those who submitted [a] congratulatory telegram*.
1 The congratulatory telegram to the Central Committee of the Party and the Chairman of the Comintern was sent in the name of Lenin by the chairman of the first Ishim uezd conference of Bolsheviks (apparently at the opening of the conference).
A. M. Nikolaev - Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs.
£021
NOTE TO G. E. ZINOVIEV1.
[March 3, 1919]
I think a special resolution on the bourgeoisie and the proletarian revolution is needed. May be call it »abiirgerlichc Den)[ocrajtie».

V A R I A

1 In his report at the 1st Congress of the Comintern "On Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," Lenin mentions a meeting of the resolution commission that discussed the day before, i.e. March 3, 1919, the issue of winning a communist majority in the Soviets of those countries where Soviet power had not yet triumphed. The note was written by Lenin, apparently, during the commission's discussion of the issue of a resolution on Lenin's upcoming report on this topic on March 4.
12391
NOTE TO THE SECRETARY1.
[March 8, 1919]
If Khryashcheva2 lives far away and walks, then she should be pitied. On occasion and tactfully explain to her that on days when there are no statistics questions, one can leave earlier and even not come at all.

1 The note was written at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars.
2 A. I. Khryashcheva - a member of the board of the Central Statistical Administration.
23009
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY1.
[March 18, 1919]
Call
1) Milyutin
2) Vladimirsky
In my opinion, it is necessary to cancel the decision of the Uezd Executive Committee and leave the station to the volost.

Lenin.
1 The peasants of the village of Ukhlovo, Ryazan Governorate, appealed to Lenin with a request to cancel the decision of the Ryazh Uezd Executive Committee on the nationalization of the electric station in the volost.

NOTE TO A DELEGATE OF THE IX CONGRESS OF THE RCP1.
[Before March 28, 1919]
Maybe. How much, the Bureau of the Central Committee will decide.
Lenin.

1 F. Grigoriev, a delegate from Novgorod to the IX Congress of the RCP, asked Lenin in a note whether the Novgorod Gubernia Committee could "receive a subsidy from the Central Committee due to the absolute lack of funds, and if so, how much." Lenin wrote the answer under the text of Grigoriev's note.

23474
NOTE TO S. P. SEREDA.
29. III. 1919
Comrade Sereda! They say you know something about this matter? Please let me know if you know anything and what? Return the attached note1.
Greetings!
Yours, Lenin.

1 S. P. Sereda's reply: "I know nothing about this matter, but I can collect information about the commune's attitude to the former estate of Marchenko and about Mulyukin's role in this matter."

14121
NOTE TO THE KREMLIN COMMANDANT.
7/1V 1919
Please let the bearer, Comrade Filipp Ilyich Bodrov1, pass into the Kremlin and to the Council of People's Commissars.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

1 See p. 314 of the Collection.

ORDER TO THE SECRETARY1.
[April 12, 1919]
Call Dzerzhinsky, whether he will check or entrust Kamenev.

1 Members of the "labor commune" of the Ivanovo Monastery in Moscow, in a letter sent to Lenin, asked to leave the premises they occupied to them.

TELEGRAM TO THE TULA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE*.

To the Tula Uezd Executive Committee
[April 16, 1919]
Please inform me as soon as possible with answers to the following questions:
1) Was there an Uezd Tula Congress on the organization of sowing in Tula? 2) In the middle of March or when exactly? 3) Was there a proposal (whose) to send greetings to Lenin? 4) Was there a decision by the delegates for sending greetings in general, but against sending greetings on behalf of the Communists? 5) Was the congress dissolved for this reason? 6) Or generally dissolved for anything else? 7) If so, under what circumstances? 8) If not, were there any other frictions and what did they consist of? 9) How many delegates were at the congress? 10) Are there any names and addresses? 11) Who was at the congress from the Uezd Executive Committee or from the Uezd Land Department?
It is important for me to receive an answer immediately. If it is impossible to answer all questions immediately, answer immediately those that can be answered at once, and set a deadline for answering the remaining questions.
I insist absolutely on the maximum speed of the answer and place responsibility on the Uezd Executive Committee if there are delays.
Please send me clippings of all material from all monthly newspapers about this congress.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

1 This telegram was caused by the following message received by Lenin: "In the second half of March, the Tula Uezd Soviet convened an uezd congress on the organization of sowing. Initially (as is customary with us), it was proposed to send a congratulatory telegram to Lenin from the assembled communists. The delegates stated: we would be happy to send a telegram, but we do not agree that we are communists. We do not want to be them! It is not for everyone to call themselves such!! This congress was dispersed as counter-revolutionary. About 200 embittered, offended people scattered throughout the uezd. This was told to me by a comrade who promised to check more accurately. Maybe you should inquire about this congress?".
The text of the telegram is typed on a typewriter and signed by Lenin. Judging by the content, the telegram was undoubtedly dictated by Lenin.
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ORDER TO THE SECRETARY K
16/1V [1919; Call Semashko and record the exact practical result.
Lenin.

1 Response to the request of doctor S. A. Shimkevich (in a letter from Samara) for the issuance of a permit to obtain smallpox-detrite.

N. A. Semashko - People's Commissar of Health.


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23130
NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY.
28/IV 1919
Comrade Krestinsky (or Comrade Ganetsky), The bearer has a request regarding pledged items. I kindly ask you to consider her request as soon as possible and resolve the matter without delay*.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

1 For more details about this, see: "Ya. Ganetsky. Lenin and the Nationalization of Banks," "Proletarian Revolution" No. 6, 1926, p. 11.

23247
NOTE TO E. M. SKLYANSKY.
2/V [1919]
Comrade Sklyansky! Conduct, i.e., instruct to conduct an inspection. It is strange that ANONYMOUS is writing!
Lenin.

1 The editor of "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" Yu. M. Steklov, on the basis of anonymous correspondence received by "Izvestia," reported in a letter to Lenin about the disorder at the military-instructor courses.
Ш58
NOTE TO V. I. PODBELSKYPodbelsky.
[May 3, 1919]
Congratulatory telegrams are prohibited1.
1 A group of workers and employees of the Kirsky logging operation on the Moscow-Kazan railway sent Lenin a congratulatory telegram on May 3, 1919, in connection with May Day. Lenin wrote the note to Podbelsky on the blank of the telegram he received.

3 NOTE TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 1.
To the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee
30/V [1919]
I am for the expulsion from the party of those participating in rituals.
Lenin.

V A R I A.

1 In a letter entitled "Tribute to Prejudice," addressed to the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee, B. Yaroslavsky asked the members of the bureau whether it was possible to leave communists who adhered to religious prejudices in the party.
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TELEGRAM TO THE SAMARA GUBERNIA PARTY COMMITTEE.

Samara
Gubkompart
25. VI. 1919
Please send feedback on military commissar Rogdaev, a former anarchist, now a communist, his efficiency, his reliability, and the strength of his transition to the communists. [676]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
CERTIFICATES TO V. V. ADORATSKY.

I.
Certificate.
27. VI. 1919
The bearer of this, Comrade Adoratsky, is personally known to me as
a scholar and writer. I request that he be given all possible assistance
in issuing books from all libraries, including for home
use, under my personal guarantee.1
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
II.
Certificate.
1. VII. 1919
The bearer of this, Comrade Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky,
is personally known to me as a Bolshevik, who worked in the party even
long before the revolution.
At present, he is a Soviet worker in the Commissariat of National Education.
I request all military, railway and other authorities and
all Soviet institutions to provide Comrade V. V. Adorat
sky with all possible assistance and full confidence.
Ch[airman of the] All-Russian Central Executive Committee V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

1 V. V. Adoratsky worked on compiling a popular essay on the October Revolution.
54585
TELEGRAM TO THE KAZAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
Kazan
University Library
Copy to the city public library
27. VI. 1919
Telegraph whether you have sets of Izvestia and Pravda from October 1917. If you do not have it, whether it is in another Kazan
library. I need it for urgent work entrusted by me to a Kazan resident *. [676]
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
1 Lenin has in mind V. V. Adoratsky. See previous document.
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NOTE TO A. I. RYKOV.
[Later than July 2, 1919]1 ad 1) Until Shotman finds another
suitable person we need a 1st-class worker in Revel. For a while.
ad 2) ?? Who will replace Gukovsky? This is not possible.
1 Justification of the date: the mandate for the appointment of A. V. Shotman as a member of
the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council was signed by Lenin on *July 2, 1919.
2 The Council of People's Commissars intended to send A. V. Shotman to Revel as
Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Estonia. In a note to Lenin, apparently written
at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, Rykov asked for the retention of: 1) A. V. Shotman
exclusively at work in the Supreme Economic Council and '2) I. E. Gukovsky, chairman of
the main Oil Committee, who worked simultaneously in the Supreme Economic Council,
exclusively in a leading position in the main Oil Committee.
436"
NOTE TO A. I. RYKOV 1.
[July 8, 1919]
There have been a lot of threats of resignations in recent days: don't get
excited.

V A R I A

1 The note was written at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, during the discussion of the draft
decree on the appointment of A. I. Rykov, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, as Extraordinary
Commissioner of the Council of Defense for the supply of the Red Army and the Red
Fleet. Rykov was dissatisfied with the following wording of paragraph
5 of the draft decree: "All credits allocated by the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs for monetary
allowances and supplies to the Red Army, as well as all credits of the Extraordinary
Commission for Supply, are transferred to the disposal of the Extraordinary Commissioner of the
Council of Defense. The establishment of the time and procedure for the transfer of credits is entrusted
to the Extraordinary Commissioner of the Council of Defense in consultation with the People's Commissar for Military Affairs."
In this regard, Rykov wrote the following note to Lenin: "I do not
agree to these conditions. Put anyone you want in this position. I am sick and tired of consultations."
25347
TELEGRAM TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE *.
To the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Executive Committee for direction to the Sormovo
military and civilian authorities
8. VII. 1919
I request you to immediately appoint a strict and absolutely impartial
investigation, through reliable communists, personally known,
— of the attached statement; — to draw up an accurate factual description of how many houses,
apartments and rooms are occupied (by how many people) by employees and
higher technical personnel; which factory building is requested for the orphanage and which
can be given; — to accurately verify who was supposed to be in charge of this, the names
of the responsible persons, their addresses, as well as those who will conduct the investi
gation.
Report on the execution to me immediately by mail or with
an occasion.
Chairman of the < ]ouncil. Ob. V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
1 The bureau of the women's public organization in Sormovo on July 3, 1919
addressed N. K. Krupskaya, who had arrived in Sormovo, with a request to allocate
one of the premises of the Sormovo plant to the orphanage.
Factory premises could be transferred to other institutions only
by order of the Council of Defense, and therefore the statement of the Sormovo women's
organization was forwarded to Lenin. Lenin's order was considered
on July 18 at a meeting of the presidium of the Sormovo Soviet. The final
resolution of this issue was transferred to the presidium of the Nizhny
Novgorod Provincial Executive Committee, which decided to fulfill the request of the Sormovo
women's organization.

23127
NOTE TO Y. S. GANETSKY1.
[August 8, 1919]
Ask someone reliable personally to be responsible for the transfer.
1 Y. S. Ganetsky had to assist in the transfer of an urgent
letter from Lenin abroad. Lenin's letter was handed over to Ganetsky
together with the note given here (see Y. S. Ganetsky "About Lenin,"
"Red Panorama" No. 3, 193*2).
25641
TELEGRAM TO K. K. YURENEV \
Simbirsk
Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front
To Yurenev
11. VIII. 1919
The Central Committee finds your work in the Kostroma province necessary. Finish handing over affairs and depart. [8291
Lenin.
1 K. K. Yurenev in August 1919 was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern
Front.
24642
NOTE TO S. I. SEREDE.
16/VIII [1919]
Comrade Serede: what did you do? what's the story1?
Lenin.
1 The Council of the Zhergly agricultural commune (Orsha district)
appealed to Lenin with a request to take measures to restore the commune,
destroyed by local hooligans.

NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV.
[Not earlier than September 1919]
Comrade Kamenev!
I am returning the articles of the Mensheviks. I read Martov and Dan!.
I fully agree with you that it is necessary to print and as soon as possible.
Yours Lenin.
1 It was not possible to establish which articles are being discussed.

V A R I A

24670
TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE WESTERN FRONT.
By direct line and inform me of the time of delivery.
3 X 1919
Revolutionary Council of the Western Front
Immediately send the Apothecary Warehouse of Litbel * to Moscow, according to
the order of the People's Commissariat of Health. [Accurately notify] about the execution.
[894
Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.
26997
NOTE TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE KREMLIN.
To the Commandant
29. X. 1919
Kremlin
Today a paper should arrive from a Red Army soldier (here
in the Kremlin in courses)
Grigory Ivanovich Nikolsky
Ryazan province]1.
Accept it and deliver it to me personally today.
Ch. of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
1 See p. 183 of the Collection.
24729
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY K
[November 14, 1919]
Call Rattle* and Milyutin and record their answer:
what has been done.
1 Written by Lenin in response to a telegraphic request from the Okulovsky
paper mills to stop the mobilization of horses belonging to the factory by the military department.
Upon receiving a response from Rattle, Lenin marked the document: "6 archive."
and N. I. Rattle is a military worker.
2*6M
NOTE TO S. D. MARKOV AND V. V. SHMIDT.
[Not earlier than November 1, 1919]
Markov and Schmidt: what has been done1?
Apothecary warehouse of the Lithuanian-Belarusian government. Ed.

1 The Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front in a telegram dated November 1, 1919
requested equipment for military hospitals, in connection with the threatening
typhus epidemic in the Ufa region.
24737
TELEGRAM TO B. S. VEISBROD.
by direct line
Samara
Special Commission of the People's Commissariat of Health to Veisbrod 1
25. XI. 1919
Stay on the Turkestan Front. Another commission has gone to the Eastern Front. [9581
Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.
1 B. S. Veisbrod - in 1919, chairman of the extraordinary sanitary
commission to combat typhus on the Turkestan Front.
153Q9
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY H
[December 25, 1919]
Semashko for submission to the Council of Defense of the draft
resolution.
1 The commander of the 8th army, G. Sokolnikov, reported in a telegram
to Lenin on the mass character of the typhus epidemic and asked to authorize
the early graduation of medical students of the 5th year of the Voronezh University, transferring
all graduate doctors to the disposal of the 8th army.
*5384
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY.
18/I [1920]
Please call Markov, telling him that I strongly support Semashko's request
Lenin.
1 The People's Commissar of Health, P. A. Semashko, in a phone message to Lenin's name,
requested an immediate order for a faster progress of a very
urgent echelon "headed by the extraordinary sanitary commission of Comrade Veisbrod, carrying material resources to the Southern Front and Ukraine for
combating typhus." This order was to be given to the Deputy People's Commissar for Railways S. D. Markov.

V A R I A

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. B. KAMENEV,
JANUARY 20, 1920.

1)011 R O G KLMNKVA
Vladimir Ilyich,
I. Have you received Makhno’s telegram?
ANSWER . 1 E H U H \
AND
V O N ! » OSKAMENKVA, 2.
Why do you sign decrees about the operetta, without inquiring
in this important case the opinion of the local authorities or not giving
the operetta, in general, for consideration by the localities? I protest in the name of the 7th Congress.
Address the Small Soviet, so that it calls on «interested parties».
3. Please grant Gagarin's request 1. This is an old, decrepit old man,
former director of the Polytechnic Institute, now works for
Krasin. Claims that next to him lives with the same paper with Your
??? signature... Kuropatkin!
Respect the old man.
Congratulations on Rostov.
answer L E II Я П A.
I gave Kuropatkin a paper?? It can't be!!
Who is Gagarin? I have no idea 2.
1 A. G. Gagarin asked to be issued the following certificate, the draft
of which he wrote himself: "I allow the bearer of this, engineer Andrei Gri
gorievich Gagarin, to live in the Pskov province, Porkhov district,
Shevnitskaya volost in the People's House of my name in "Kholomki". I ask
the local authorities not to bother Gagarin, not to take him as a hostage, things
not to requisition and give him kerosene the necessary amount for his
activities, which I consider useful for the republic."

Reply from Kamenev: "I will ask Vladimirsky by phone. And I
brought it to you today precisely to laugh at the style of the former
dignitaries: this is his formulation."
Over the text of Kamenev's response, Lenin wrote an order to the secret
tary: "Save. Kamenev's note about Gagarin."
LENIN'S ANSWER.
NOTES ON A NOTE BY KAMENEV.

•4744
NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV.
[January 20, 1920]
If the question is put this way, then dictate to your secretary
paper: protest against the Small Soviet and draft a decree
resolution for the Large Soviet (that the Small Soviet does not intervene
without special reasons in local affairs and is always obliged
ask the local Soviet deputies, except in extremely urgent cases) *.
1 In a note to Lenin, Kamenev protested against the decision
of the Small Council of People's Commissars to close the operetta of the Nikitsky
theater. In Kamenev's opinion, the resolution of this issue was within the com*
competence not of central, but of local authorities, in this case
Moscow Department of Public Education.
23930
NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV
[January 26, 1920]
If we change the questions now, we will waste time and even worse
we'll get confused. It is better to stick to what has been accepted: inevitably water first
(and maybe until completely... there will be a lot.
1 Written, apparently, at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party with representatives
of the Central Bureau of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East
in response to a note from Kamenev, who proposed to Lenin to change the order
discussion of issues related to the organization of the Tatar-Bashkir res
public.
24091
NOTE ON THE TELEGRAM FROM GLAVUGLYA.1
February 13, 1920^
Enquire with Ukrsovnarkom in Kharkov) by phone.
1 The note was made on a telegram from a representative of Glavugol from Kharkov
of the disorderly eviction of employees of Yugotop from apartments. On
the back of the telegram is the text of the telegram to Kharkov, written
by the secretary.