MEMORANDUM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC
April 23, 1919
We must also coordinate with Dzerzhinsky to ensure that he assigns the most energetic personnel. And should we not dispatch additional military forces
(units)*?
Moreover, if conditions there are unfavorable, we must resort to cunning.
* The reference is to measures taken against the White Guard uprising of the Cossacks on the Don, in the vicinity of the stanitsa of Veshepskaya, located in the rear of our Southern Front.
In a series of directives, Lenin emphasized the urgency of swiftly suppressing the uprising and warned of the danger posed by the potential alliance between the insurgents and Denikin’s advancing troops. See this collection, pp. 122, 131, 137, 138, 147, 148, 163.