Saratov

To Extraordinary Commissar* Smirnov

Will transmit everything to the deputy of Trotsky, who has left for Kazan. Will also transmit to Nevsky and others. Press hard for the organization of the poor peasants, for the crushing of the kulaks, and for the arming of reliable workers.

Lenin

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* To Extraordinary Commissar.—Ed.

Written August 10, 1918

First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII

Printed from the manuscript.