Here is (arrived from Astrakhan - Baku - Tsaritsyn) the Caucasian commissar Ivanov, - apparently a fine warrior and capable of suppressing kulak uprisings for real.

He is eager to go to the Czechoslovak front.

He asks to be given 500 men.

Can his request be quickly satisfied?

And to what extent?

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Written in July, later than the 7th, 1918.

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.

Printed from the manuscript.