Date: 1918-08-19
Source: ru:LS/v34

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LENIN'S COLLECTED WORKS
44524
TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 2ND ARMY
August 1918
Received. Instruction—act more energetically and decisively against the White Guards and the kulaks. Report more frequently and in more detail on the results*.
Lenin
Printed from a typewritten copy.
23725
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC
copy to the CHIEF OF STAFF
Secret
August 19, 1918
Regarding your military proposals on forming units from instructors—let the military themselves decide, I do not presume to judge. I only know about the necessity of our instructors for the workers' army, given the complete unreliability of the officers.
And as for the monetary reward, I agree and will defend and implement your decision**. Do not publish.
Lenin
23932
LETTER TO THE POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF THE 1ST ARMY
August 21, 1918
Comrade Bosh told me about your meeting at the front, about the situation at the front, and about your doubts. You were sure that Syzran could and should be taken, but you did not want to write here.
* This refers to the suppression of the White Guard uprising in Izhevsk and in the area of the Botkinsky factory.
** In telegrams to V. I. Lenin, the Chief of Staff proposed to start forming special units from instructors and instructor course cadets. In addition, he asked for permission to announce to the troops of the 5th and 1st armies that the units which first enter Kazan and Simbirsk would receive a monetary reward from the government.

1917 — 1918 YEARS
If this is so, then you are wrong. A commissar is appointed precisely to complain. You must definitely write (and telegraph) to me about everything and more often.
You have not written a single line even once.
This is not good. It is not party-like and it is a failure to fulfill your state duty! Really, it is not good.
Greetings! Your Lenin
25477
TELEGRAM TO ALL VOLGA SOVIETS
August 22, 1918
The Council of People's Commissars instructs you to unconditionally carry out all orders of the expedition of Ter-Gabrielyan and Kvyatkovsky concerning the import and export of oil, gasoline, and petroleum products in your area.
Any obstacles created by your Soviet's workers in the execution of the expedition's tasks will be considered an act directed against the Soviet power and will be punished with the full severity of the laws of the revolutionary period.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original signed by
V. I. Lenin.
23578
TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TURKESTAN COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
Tashkent
August 23, 1918
We know little about the Caucasus and Baku. The information is not verified. In the North Caucasus, there is Soviet power. Its troops are cut off from Tsaritsyn, which is besieged from the south by the Cossacks. The British have landed in Baku, and the situation there is unstable. The Germans agree