From Mekhonoshin’s reports* it follows with absolute certainty the absolute necessity to put an end to the uprising immediately, for otherwise we are unable even to hold Astrakhan. Therefore I once again insist that you without fail make a second trip to Boguchar and bring the matter to an end, since Sokolnikov’s work is clearly not going well.

Lenin

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Written 22 May 1919

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typewritten text