NOTES TO A. D.
TSYURUPA

[August 3, 1918]
To Tsyurupa
They say that
1) Sverdlov's brother
2 undertakes to deliver to Moscow in 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
interferes with this.
2) that representatives of the Soviets request, in order to combat famine,
permission to bring in bread, in strict compliance with 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 meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on August 3, 1918, in connection with the discussion of draft decrees developed by the People's Commissariat of Food in accordance with V. I. Lenin's theses on attracting workers' organizations to grain procurement.
In his responses to Lenin, Tsyurupa wrote that the People's Commissariat of Food did not regulate the procurement of potatoes and that formalism could not occur here, and on the issue of transportation and procurement of bread, he proposed to give independence to the Soviets of the famine-stricken gubernias, which all food supply officials agreed with.
2 V. M. Sverdlov in 1918 - Commissioner of the Operational Directorate of the NKPS,

TELEGRAM
TO THE TULA EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

I. VIII. 1918
Tula
To the Extraordinary Commission
Copy to the Labor Department, to Dyuryainen * for the workers
Immediately send a detailed report on the reasons for the arrest
by you of Kislyakov. If secret, then send with a special messenger.
You were obliged yourself, without waiting for my request, to send
Omission; it refers to P. P. Pyurnyannen.

1917 (DECEMBER) - 1918 me explanations, as soon as you learned about the protest of the Gubernia Executive Committee
and about the complaints of the workers. Telegraph about the execution.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin
1 V. I. Lenin's request was caused by telegrams from the Tula Gubernia Executive Committee and workers of the Socialist mechanical plant protesting against the illegal decision of the Tula Extraordinary Commission to arrest E. N. Kislyakov, head of the Gubernia Department of the Council of National Economy, who was the victim of slander by bourgeois elements. Secretary of the Department of Labor of factory and plant committees P. P. Pyuriyainen telegraphed V. I. Lenin on August 13, 1918, that E. N. Kislyakov was not arrested, that he, together with the head of the Department of Labor Arsenyev, was being sent to Moscow with a detailed report to V. I. Lenin on the affairs of the Tula Council of National Economy and to clarify his case.

LETTER TO FRITZ PLATTEN

14. VIII. 1918
To Comrade
Fritz Platten
Dear Comrade Platten!
Of course, it would be very good if you came to visit us again. They say that the Swiss atmosphere has a bad influence on
You (this atmosphere is too petty-bourgeois, too "calm", too "friendly") — I
will allow myself to hope that our atmosphere can have a different
influence.
Goodbye
Yours, Lenin
P.S. All counter-revolutionary forces have gathered against us.
The kulak uprising is raging. But I hope and am sure that we will
defeat them.
Printed according to the text of the journal "Schweizerische
Zeitschrift für
Geschichte"
1968, №
1,
translation from
German
In
Russian it is published for the first time
1 The letter was sent by chance along with a letter to Ya. A. Berzin (see V. I. Lenin. Full. coll. works, vol. 50, p. 150).