1017 (DECEMBER) —
1918

2 On July 26, 1918, V. I. Lenin received Gordon and on the same day
wrote a letter to K. Zetkin in reply to the letter brought by Gordon from Clara
Zetkin to Lenin dated June 27, 1918 (see V. I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works,
vol. 50, pp. 127–128).

NOTE
TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE KREMLIN
P. D.
MALKOV
25.VII.1918
Comrade Malkov!
Give Comrade
Gorbunov the opportunity to inspect
the Grand
Nikolaevsky Palace and other Kremlin premises
1 .
Lenin
1 The inspection of Kremlin premises was connected with the housing of government institutions after the move from Petrograd. V. I. Lenin addressed the
Commandant of the Kremlin on this matter more than once in the first months
of 1918 after March 12.

TELEGRAM TO V. P. NOGIN

[August 1, 1918]
Saratov
Nogin

More than two workers are being sent today. Exert every effort to get the work on track. I shall give orders regarding the literature.
Lenin
1 V. I. Lenin’s telegram is a reply to V. P. Nogin’s telegram of August 1,
1918, from Saratov reporting the grave situation in the city and gubernia in
connection with the Czechoslovak mutiny, the kulak uprisings, the poor organizational and propaganda work among the population, especially the peasantry,
the need to send one or two workers from the Centre for Party work and those
knowledgeable in newspaper affairs, and also to send Pravda, Izvestia, Bednota,
and newspapers in Tatar and other local languages.
2 V. P. Nogin — Deputy People’s Commissar of Labour, member of the
Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

NOTES TO A. D.
TSYURUPA

[August 3, 1918]
Tsyurupa
They say that
1) Sverdlov’s brother
 2 undertakes to deliver to Moscow within 7 days tens of thousands of poods of potatoes (at a price lower than the usual Moscow
price) and that the formalism
of the Commissariat of Food is hindering this.
2) that representatives of the Soviets of Deputies request, for the struggle against famine, permission to bring in grain, with strict observance of all
the rules and plans of the Commissariat of Food, and that formalism, etc.
1 This correspondence with A. D. Tsyurupa was conducted during a session of the Council of People’s Commissars on August 3, 1918, in connection
with the discussion of draft decrees worked out by the People’s Commissariat
of Food in accordance with V. I. Lenin’s theses on enlisting workers’ organizations in grain procurement.
In his replies to Lenin, Tsyurupa wrote that the People’s Commissariat
of Food does not regulate the matter of potato procurement and that formalism
cannot have a place here, and on the question of grain transport and procurement proposes giving independence to the Soviets of Deputies of the famine-stricken gubernias, with which all food supply workers agree.
2 V. M. Sverdlov in 1918 — Commissar of the Operations Administration
of the People’s Commissariat of Railways.

TELEGRAM
TO THE TULA EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

I.VIII.1918
Tula
Extraordinary Commission
Copy to the Labour Committee, Dyurainen * for the workers
Immediately send a detailed report on the reasons for your arrest of Kislyakov. If secret, send by special courier.
You were obliged yourselves, without waiting for my inquiry, to send
Slip of the pen; refers to P. P. Pyurnianen.

1917 (DECEMBER) — 1918 

me an explanation as soon as you learned of the protest of the Gubernia Executive Committee
and the complaints of the workers. Wire on execution.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin
1 V. I. Lenin’s inquiry was prompted by telegrams from the Tula Gubernia Executive Committee and the workers of the Sotsialist Mechanical Plant
protesting against the unlawful decision
of the Tula Extraordinary Commission to arrest the head of the gubernia department of the Council of the National Economy, E. N. Kislyakov, who fell
victim to slander by bourgeois elements. The secretary of the labour department
of the factory committees, P. P. Pyurnianen, wired V. I. Lenin on August 13,
1918, that E. N. Kislyakov had not been arrested, that he, together with the
head of the labour department, Arsenyev, was being sent to Moscow with a detailed report to V. I. Lenin on the affairs of the Tula Council of the National
Economy and to clarify his case.
LETTER TO FRITZ PLATTEN

14.VIII.1918
Comrade
Fritz Platten
Dear Comrade Platten!
Of course, it would be very good if you could come to us once more. They say that the Swiss atmosphere is having a bad influence on
you (that atmosphere is too petty-bourgeois, too “calm,” too “chummy”) — I
shall permit myself to hope that our atmosphere may exert a different influence.
Goodbye
Yours, Lenin
P.S. All the counter-revolutionary forces have gathered against us.
A kulak uprising is raging. But I hope and am confident that we shall
defeat them.
Printed from the text of the journal Schweizerische
Zeitschrift für
Geschichte
1968,
No.
1,
translated from the German
Published in Russian for the first time
1 The letter was sent by opportunity together with a letter to Ya. A. Berzin
(see V. I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, p. 150).