V. I. Lenin

Inquiry of the C.P.C. to The C.C. of the Left S.R. Party {1}

Following the decision of the Council of People’s
Commissars dated 14.1 (night)-extract from the journal is herewith
enclosed-we ask the C.C. of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Party to
answer the following questions:

1) When did the Petrograd Committee of the Left S.R.s pass its
resolution refusing to have any members on the staff of the Committee of
Inquiry so long as Kozlovsky was on it?

2) What is the text of that resolution?

3) Was the C.C. of the Left S,R. Party aware of this resolution and was
it commented on in the C.C. of the Left S.R.s?

4) When and by whom (of the Left S.R.s) in the Petrograd Soviet or its
Executive Committee was it reported that the Left SR.s would not join the
Committee of Inquiry so. long as Kozlovsky was on it?

5) Did the Left S;R.s carry out, the decision of the Petrograd Soviet,
which asked them to present evidence against Kozlovsky within a definite
period?