LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

A. M. Kaledin — general of the Tsarist army, ataman of the Don Cossacks, active participant in the Kornilov mutiny. After the October Revolution — one of the leaders of Cossack counter-revolution on the Don. Following defeat at the front on 29 January (11 February) 1918, he shot himself.

7 (14) January 1918 — beginning of the workers' revolution in Finland.

NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FINANCE
24 January (6 February) 1918

To the Commissariat of Finance
Moyka, 43

The bearer — Evdokia Andreyevna Essen — wishes to submit a petition regarding the withdrawal of her deposit from the State Bank. I request that you explain to her how this petition should be drawn up, to whom and in what order it should be submitted, and with what documents it should be furnished.

Lenin

¹ E. A. Essen — stepmother of A. M. and E. M. Essen — participants in the social-democratic movement since the early 1890s, who worked in Russia and abroad. While in emigration together with her wards, she attended meetings where V. I. Lenin delivered lectures.

TELEGRAM TO THE PEOPLE'S SECRETARY OF UKRAINE
E. V. LUGANOVSKY

[14 February 1918]

Kharkov

To the People's Secretary Luganovsky

I have given an order to present me with a copy of the mandate given to Kudinskii by Podvoiskii.¹ It seems unlikely that this mandate could extend to Ukraine, where all commissars traveling from here are obliged to obey the Ukrainian People's Secretariat and, consequently, you.

1917 (DECEMBER) – 1918

I request that you forward a copy of this telegram or the original to Kudinskii and ask him to speak with me over the direct line. I hope this is simply a misunderstanding.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

¹ V. I. Lenin's telegram was provoked by a report from V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko to the Council of People's Commissars about the removal of Kudinskii from all his assigned tasks in connection with repeated violations of revolutionary discipline. See also V. I. Lenin's telegram to E. V. Luganovsky of 15 February 1918 (V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, pp. 42–43). Antonov-Ovseenko at that time commanded Soviet forces fighting against the Kaledinists and the Central Rada.

² S. D. Kudinskii — SR-Maximalist, commander of the northern military-revolutionary detachments, later commissar at the Stavka of the Commander-in-Chief.

N. I. Podvoiskii — member of the Committee for Military and Naval Affairs, commander of the Petrograd Military District.

NOTE TO Y. M. SVERDLOV
20 February 1918

Comrade Sverdlov!

The bearer — Comrade Bogrova, who in 1905 was secretary of the Council of Workers' Deputies. I spoke with you about how you might help her.¹

Your Lenin

¹ This concerns the organization of treatment for V. L. Bogrova abroad. On 2 April 1918, a pass to the government building in the Kremlin was issued in the name of Bogrova, bearing the following notations by the secretary: "Request from V. I.", "Passed to V. I." (TsGAOR, f. 130, op. 1, unit 78, p. 22). See also the present collection, pp. 30, 75, 76, 84.

NOTE OVER THE DIRECT LINE TO REVAL
YA. YA. ANVELT

[22 February 1918]

First question: what are the latest intelligence reports on the military situation? 2) Second: what measures have been taken to strengthen the guard of your western border? 3) Third: how are the much-esteemed barons feeling, what has become of them? 4) Fourth: what, in your opinion, should the Council of People's Commissars undertake with respect to the barons in order to demonstrate such an outward benevolence, while this demonstration must in no way whatsoever weaken the force of repression against the aforementioned barons???

Lenin

*Printed from the telegraph tape

¹ Ya. Ya. Anvelt — one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks in Estonia. The conversation was prompted by Anvelt's telegram from Reval to the Council of People's Commissars reporting the discovery of a conspiracy of former Baltic nobility in connection with the impending German advance on Estland (see TsPA IML at the CC CPSU).

TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SOVIET OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES, TO THE UNION OF PRINTERS, TO SYTIN

[25 February 1918]

Immediately evacuate as large a quantity as possible of rotary machines, linotype machines, and all materials necessary for printing, all equipment, roll paper. Everything that is possible. The printing press — our mightiest weapon. Evacuate to Nizhny Novgorod.²

Lenin

**Printed from the text written in the hand of N. P. Gorbunov

¹ I. D. Sytin — major Russian entrepreneur in publishing, printing production, and the book trade. After the October Revolution he participated in Soviet publishing affairs.

² Evacuation was necessary in connection with the impending German advance from Estland.

*There is also the signature of I. V. Stalin.

**There is also the signature of N. P. Gorbunov.