V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE TEACHERS OF TVER GUBERNIA [1]

Comrade Ramensky
Representative of Tver Gubernia

Tell the teachers of Tver Gubernia that the kulaks have
their grain and that the task of Soviet power is to turn
this grain over to the working people.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

22/II. 1919

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Notes:
[1]
Written by Lenin on the title page of a copy of his pamphlet
The Struggle for Grain (Moscow, 1918), which through the medium
of A. P. Ramensky (a colleague of I. N. Ulyanov—Lenin’s father)
he presented to a delegation of teachers from Tver Gubernia. The
delegation had come to Moscow to ask for help in the form of food
for Tver teachers.

Lenin’s pamphlet contained the text of his report on combating the famine delivered at a joint session of the All-Russia
Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, and the trade
unions on June 4, 1918, and his reply to the debate on the report
(see present edition, Vol. 27, pp. 419–43).