Date: 1918-08-28
Source: ru:LS/v37

LENIN'S COLLECTED WORKS

NOTES TO A. K. PAIKES

[August 15, 1918]

Comrade Paikes — try to influence [the situation], otherwise [he] will be expelled or removed, since they have been sent for by a decision of the Council of People's Commissars.

To Paikes
Now it will be necessary to raise the question here, as this is the decision just adopted. Lander is committing such foolish and insolent acts that everyone's patience is at an end, and no one can find a single argument in his favor.
Take the floor.
1 A. K. Paikes was at this time a member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of State Control. These notes were written during a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on August 15, 1918, in connection with the conflict between the People's Commissar of State Control, K. I. Lander, and a member of the collegium of this commissariat, A. V. Galkin, and K. I. Lander's refusal to come to the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars for an explanation.

TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FINANCES

[August 20, 1918]
To the Commissariat of Finances
Comrade Krestinsky

I request that you consider this application and inform me tomorrow, August 21, 1918, of the conclusion of the People's Commissar of Finances.
1 The resolution is written on the application of A. L. Shaternikova — the widow of a zemstvo doctor who died during the fight against an epidemic of typhus. A. L. Shaternikova asked for help in obtaining money stored in the safe of the Moscow Bank, which she received from the zemstvo for the upbringing of her children after her husband's death, and a loan belonging to her father.
On the application, there is a note from V. M. Bonch-Bruevich about the Shaternikovs as revolutionary workers, completely unprovided-for people known to her from her youth, and a note from N. K. Krupskaya: "Shaternikova's address: Higher Women's Courses. I join Vera Mikhailovna Bonch-Bruevich's request. N. K. Ulyanova."
2 N. N. Krestinsky — People's Commissar of Finances.

NOTE TO L. D. TROTSKY

[August 1918, not earlier than 20th]
Comrade Trotsky!
Think about this.
Shouldn't we appoint Vatsetis as Supreme Commander?

Lenin
1 The note is written on a document from the military commissar, A. I. Egorov, about the necessity of immediately uniting the management of combat operations under one command, the appointment of a Supreme Commander responsible to the Council of People's Commissars, and the formation of the Supreme Command Staff.
1 I. I. Vatsetis — a colonel of the old army. After the October Revolution, he sided with the Soviet power. He participated in the suppression of the Left SR uprising in Moscow as the commander of the Latvian Riflemen Division. Then he was the commander of the Eastern Front, and from September 1918 to July 1919 — the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the RSFSR.

NOTE TO G. I. PETROVSKY

[Between August 21 and 28, 1918]
Petrovsky
Ispolatov complains that he is being arrested unjustly. You, supposedly, know what it's all about.
1 G. I. Petrovsky — People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR.
2 N. N. Ispolatov — Chairman of the Usman Soviet of Tambov Province.
3 On this note by V. I. Lenin, there is a response from G. I. Petrovsky stating that he does not know the substance of the matter but has information characterizing