Astrakhan

For Shaumyan in Baku

Any actions by the Dashnaks against the decision of the Fifth Congress of Soviets and the central Soviet power will be regarded as an uprising and as treason. Regarding the dispatch of troops, we will take measures, but we cannot promise anything definite.

Lenin

Written 29 July 1918

First published in 1938 in the journal "Red Archive" No. 4-5

Printed from the manuscript