V. I.

Lenin

365

TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Stalin, copy to Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

Code message received. Both your requests Have been fulfilled. Two armoured trains and 500 Communists are
leaving today. Trotsky is here. Telegraph, first, whether
you have received this reply; second, how you appraise the
situation, whether you have recovered what was lost, and what measures have been taken; third, whether you
consider possible your arrival tomorrow or the day after
or quite impossible; fourth, your opinion about the publication of the document you sent, not in full but parts of it.
I urge publication. We ourselves will select what can be
published. I await a reply. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On receiving Lenin’s telegram, Stalin wrote on it a reply for
dispatch to Moscow: “What was lost has not yet been recovered. Heavy
crossfire is going on. Everything that could be sent has been sent
for operations by land. Obviously it is impossible and inadvisable to leave for Moscow during those days. Postpone the plenum.
We have no objection to publication of part of the document....”