V. I.

Lenin

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REPLY BY DIRECT LINE TO V. I. NEVSKY AND L. S. SOSNOVSKY [1]

The right to vote must be given only to uyezd delegates
in strict accordance with the Constitution. I shall get in
touch at once with the Presidium of the Central Executive
Committee. You should both remain until complete quiet is
restored and the whole work is running smoothly.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In a telegram on June 20, 1919, V. I. Nevsky and L. S. Sosnovsky
reported from Tver that the strike was at an end and all
enterprises were resuming work. They wrote that, over and above the
delegates constitutionally elected by the uyezd congresses for the
forthcoming Gubernia Congress of Soviets, the Gubernia
Executive Committee had invited an extra delegate from each volost
for the purpose of strengthening ties with the countryside. The
Gubernia Congress of Soviets decided to ask the C.E.C. to grant
the volost delegates the right to vote. Nevsky and Sosnovsky
objected to this, stressing that 80 per cent of the volost delegates
were non-Party, predominantly kulak elements, and they asked
Lenin to reply urgently.

The telegraph form on which Lenin’s telegram was written
bears a note by him: “ Files .”