AND RESOLUTION ON A LETTER FROM B. G. KOZLOVSKY

[After June 25, 1919]

To read here?

I will read it. Do you vouch for the author?

[November, not later than 12, 1919]
To Stasova

2 for transmission to Serebryakov.
1 This concerns a letter from the military specialist, Petrograd provincial military commissar, member of the Petrograd Defense Committee B. G. Kozlovsky addressed to the secretary of the CC RCP(b) L. P. Serebryakov dated June 25, 1919 on the state of affairs in Petrograd's military institutions, on his dissatisfaction with the work, with a request to recall him from Petrograd to any other work. V. I. Lenin's letters to B. G. Kozlovsky on this matter, see present collection, p. 172.
2 E. D. Stasova — secretary of the CC RCP(b).

1919

NOTE TO THE SMALL SOVNARKOM

To the Small Council of SNK

This is a statement by comrade Sternberg, member of the Revvoensoviet of the 2nd Army (strangely unsigned by him). I request
the Small Council to consider it.
26/VI [1919]
Lenin

1 Speaking of "comrade Sternberg's statement," V. I. Lenin has in mind the draft decree of Sovnarkom written by P. K. Sternberg concerning the issuance of 1—54 months' salary for the period of occupation by the Whites to workers and employees of nationalized enterprises in the district of the 2nd Army's location. Lenin's note was written on the reverse of this draft.
The draft decree was discussed and adopted unanimously at a session of the Small SNK on June 27, 1919.

TELEGRAM TO I. T. SMILGA

June 27, 1919
To the Revvoensoviet of the Western Front
In cipher
To Smilga
Member of the Revvoensoviet of the Republic
Member of the Revvoensoviet of the Western Front

I hope you received notification of the plenum for July 3rd.

2. You must come. Telegraph me whether you will definitely come.
Lenin

1 I. T. Smilga — member of the CC RCP(b).
2 This refers to a plenum of the CC RCP(b) which took place July 3-4, 1919, at which military and other questions were discussed. Central place in the plenum's work was occupied by discussion of the military situation and a series of measures to strengthen the fronts. The plenum once again confirmed the correctness of the military policy being conducted by the Soviet government since the time of the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets and approved by the Eighth Congress of the RCP(b). The plenum made a series of changes in the supreme command of the Republic's military forces and in the command of certain fronts and armies. A series of decrees was adopted on general and party mobilizations, on reduction of work in people's commissariats not directly serving the army, and others.


ANNOTATIONS ON THE TELEGRAM OF V. M. GITTIS,
K. A. MEKHONOSHIN AND G. YA. SOKOLNIKOV
AND A NOTE TO E. M. SKLYANSKY

[June 28, 1919]

...Our four divisions of front reserve are understaffed 80-90% (underlined here and below by V. I. Lenin) with respect to personnel, horses, carts and harness. In view of the order of the Revvoensovresb from June 8 No. 991 mobilization in the Oryol and Kharkov districts can be carried out only with prior agreement with the Vseroglavshtab.
The Revvoensoviet of the Southern Front was in contact with the latter on this matter on June 20 No. 3051—uau. Subsequently on June 24 via direct wire the Chief of Vseroglavshtab was informed by our headquarters of our requirements, which were then transmitted by telegram on June 24 No. 3219—mau. After this on June 27 another telegram was sent repeating the request and asking to inform when the requested mobilization could be expected to be implemented. No answer has been received thus far. The Revvoensoviet of the Southern Front, in view of the extreme importance and urgency of the matter, categorically insists on its swift resolution.
No. 3352/mau. Revvoensoviet of the Southern Front V. Gittis, K. Mekhonoshin,
Sokolnikov

To Sklyansky: this means someone is guilty of the delay (20/VI—24/VI—27/VI).
Who? An investigation is necessary.

1 V. I. Lenin's note was written on a copy of the telegram from members of the Revvoensoviet of the Southern Front V. M. Gittis, K. A. Mekhonoshin and G. Ya. Sokolnikov dated June 27, 1919 to the Council of Labor and Defense.

RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM
FROM M. M. LASHEVICH AND K. K. YURENEV

[July 1, 1919]

Telegram
Only to Lenin, Moscow, Kremlin
To Lenin
Copy to Pre-Revvoensoviet Trotsky by location, copy to Serpukhov, to Gusev

Simbirsk July 1, 22 hours, June 30. Perm has been taken by glorious units of the Third Army. Kunigur has been taken by units. We petition for the award to the 3rd Army of a month's pay equal to that of other armies for the valiant campaign from Glazov to Perm.
Revvoensoviet Lashevich, Yurenev

I fully agree.

2. Lenin

1 M. M. Lashevich and K. K. Yurenev — members of the Revvoensoviet of the Eastern Front. M. M. Lashevich from November 1918 to March 1919 was commander and from August 1918 to February 1919 was member of the Revvoensoviet of the 3rd Army.
2 In presenting the telegram to V. I. Lenin, deputy chairman of the people's commissar for military affairs and deputy chairman of the Revvoensoviet of the Republic E. M. Sklyansky wrote on it: "If you agree, we will confirm it in the name of the Defense Council."
In response to the telegram from M. M. Lashevich and K. K. Yurenev, V. I. Lenin sent a congratulatory telegram to the troops of the 3rd Army of the Eastern Front (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 51, p. 3).

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY

[July 2, 1919]

Call Stalin and Smilga
2 (they are at Dzerzhinsky's apartment in the Kremlin) about the telegram I sent them today concerning (about Serdobsk) Saratov?
3; it is absolutely necessary to contact the Stavka, with Serpukhov and
o b t a i n swift and e n e r g e t i c measures. Record their answer
4. It is impossible to wait for Gusev
5, let Smilga immediately contact Serpukhov
6. Speak yourself with Gusev and tell him that I demand by all means
e m e r g e n c y measures immediately: Serpukhov must send me a telephonogram about what has been done, and send it today
7.

1 These instructions were given by V. I. Lenin to the secretary of Sovnarkom L. A. Fotiyeva during a session of the Council of Defense on July 2, 1919.


2 I. V. Stalin — member of the Revvoensoviet of the Republic, member of the Revvoensoviet of the Western Front.
I. T. Smilga — member of the Revvoensoviet of the Western Front.
3 V. I. Lenin's telegram to I. V. Stalin and I. T. Smilga from July 2, 1919 has not been found. Apparently it was written in connection with a copy of the enciphered telegram received by him from the Commander-in-Chief I. I. Vatssetis and member of the RVSR S. I. Gusev to the Commander of the Eastern Front S. S. Kamenev from July 2, 1919 concerning the abandonment of Tsaritsyn by troops of the Southern Front and the emerging threat to the rear of the right flank of the Eastern Front and to Saratov from the Denikinites. The command of the Eastern Front was proposed to strengthen the right flank of the front with the most combat-capable troop units and to prepare the necessary reserves for their transfer to the Saratov district and other points under threat from the enemy.
4 In response to Lenin's first note, L. A. Fotiyeva replied: "The telegram will be transmitted to Gusev, who should have been here at 8 o'clock, but has not yet arrived. As for the measures too it will be said to Gusev.
Smilga is on the way to Dzerzhinsky's, where Stalin will soon be. I spoke with Stalin, he promised to have a serious talk with Gusev and to carry everything out today.
He says that Smilga looks at things from the perspective of eternity."
5 S. I. Gusev — member of the Revvoensoviet of the Republic, commissar with the chief of the field staff at the Stavka of the supreme command, located in Serpukhov.
6 In response to this, L. A. Fotiyeva informed V. I. Lenin: "Stalin gave incorrect information. Gusev is sitting right now with Smilga and the telegram was transmitted to him 20 minutes ago."
7 Having carried out this instruction, L. A. Fotiyeva wrote V. I. Lenin: "Stalin will now call Smilga."

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH N. N. KRESTINSKY

[July, not earlier than 3 — not later than 15, 1919]

I am very hesitant. Perhaps, if you really want it, send 2-3 of our people conditionally, so that, having heard everyone, they decide whether to speak and how to speak
1.
Previously I was opposed to permitting this, but the experience of Golosov's report and the speeches of Sosnovsk and Mgeladze on it are favorable. It would be possible to direct Lunacharsky, Sosnovsk and perhaps Bukharin, so that they speak without being listed on the placards, similar to Sukhanov.
The Mensheviks are behaving badly, and they need to be thoroughly beaten for it.

1 This refers to one of the meetings or gatherings organized by the Mensheviks in Moscow after the legalization of the Menshevik party by the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of November 30, 1918.
At one such meeting held before June 14, 1919, spoke N. Sukhanov and other Menshevik leaders.
At a meeting on July 3, 1919 the Menshevik G. Golosov (B. I. Nikolaevsky), who had returned the day before from Siberia, where he had been sent in 1918 from the CC of the Menshevik party, delivered a report. In his report Golosov spoke of the atrocities and outrages of the Kolchakites in Siberia, which he witnessed, about how not only workers but peasants, even kulaks and patriotically-minded intellectuals are rising up against Kolchak, about the ripening of a revolutionary explosion in Siberia and the beginning of a workers' uprising on the Urals. The speaker was forced to acknowledge that all Siberia awaits the arrival of the Red Army and the Bolsheviks. Everyone is ready for any sacrifices for the restoration of Soviet power. Such declarations by the Mensheviks were merely a disguise. This is shown, for example, by the fact that F. Dan, who was presiding at this meeting, demonstratively organized a collection of funds for the benefit of Mensheviks — members of the Constituent Assembly during Golosov's report.
At this meeting, a number of Bolsheviks were present for the purpose of exposing the Mensheviks, including L. S. Sosnovsk, editor of the newspaper "Bedpota," and journalist I. V. Mgeladze (I. Vardin). They spoke at the meeting with exposures of attempts by the Mensheviks to "adapt to the mounting mood" appearing everywhere ("Izvestiya VTSIK" No. 144, July 4 and No. 145, July 5, 1919).
V. I. Lenin, speaking with a report "On the Current Situation and Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power" at a joint session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions and the factory and works committees of Moscow on July 4, gave a proper evaluation of Golosov's report at the Menshevik meeting (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 39, pp. 38-39).

NOTE TO A. I. SVIDERSKY
AND DRAFT RESOLUTION
OF THE CC RCP(b)

[1919, July, not later than 15]

I agree. Collect the signatures of the Central Committee members: Krestinsky, Kamenev and others.

In the press, discussion of the question of raising fixed prices on grain and other food products
2 must not be permitted, and this question must not be touched upon.

Lenin


1 A. I. Svidersky — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food.
2 In view of food difficulties, the Soviet government was forced in the second half of 1919 to raise fixed prices on grain and in connection with this to establish maximum prices on articles of industry. A special commission was created to prepare this question. The report of the commission (the reporter was V. P. Milyutin) was discussed at a session of SNK on July 22, 1919. At the session V. I. Lenin wrote a note to the deputy chairman of the Supreme Economic Council V. P. Milyutin and chairman of the Central Statistical Administration P. I. Popov requesting them to calculate approximately how much money per month would be needed if grain prices were increased (threefold or fivefold), as well as prices on industrial products for peasants, while selling grain and industrial products to workers and employees at the old prices, increasing their wages and salaries by 10% (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 51, pp. 19-20). In accordance with these directions from Lenin, Sovnarkom entrusted the commission with making a general calculation of the increase in fixed prices conditional on a threefold increase, and the People's Commissariat of Food and the Supreme Economic Council on the basis of these calculations to present to SNK on July 24, 1919 proposals on fixed prices. Sovnarkom at its session on July 24 accepted in principle V. P. Milyutin's provisions. It was decided not to publish them. A decision was also made to discuss in SNK on July 31 questions about carrying out such measures so that workers and employees would pay for grain and products at the prices of the first half of 1919, as well as about the exact quantity of industrial products subject to sale and prices on them. Having discussed these questions, on July 31 Sovnarkom resolved that selling prices on food and industrial articles for workers and employees remain those that were in effect before. The People's Commissariat of Food and the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council were entrusted with publishing no later than September 1, 1919 fixed prices on food and industrial articles listed by V. P. Milyutin, for the entire year.

LETTER TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

July 19, 1919

To the People's Commissars of Postal and Telegraph Service
of Railroads of Food
Military

I request you to receive the bearer, comrade Yushkin, one of the best workers of the 5th Army, a Petrograd worker, party member, and to render him every possible assistance in his matter.
Chairman, Council of Defense. V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

1 The letter was written by V. I. Lenin during a conversation with P. Yushkin, whom he received according to a letter from the member of the Revvoensoviet of the 5th Army of the Eastern Front I. N. Smirnov dated July 10, 1919. On Yushkin's project concerning the organization of a commission under the Revvoensoviet of the 5th Army for sending food packages to Red Army families in starving provinces, V. I. Lenin made an annotation: "Yushkin's project (5th Army) 19/VII" (TsPA IML attached to the CC CPSU).

TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN

To the Revvoensoviet of the Western Front, to Stalin

There are increasingly more indications that Petrograd is in extreme danger. Try to hasten reinforcements. Should you not personally conduct heroic measures there?

Lenin

August 1, 1919, 9:30 PM

Printed from deciphered telegraph blank

ANNOTATIONS ON A NOTE FROM V. I. NEVSKY
AND A NOTE TO A. I. SVIDERSKY

[August 8, 1919]

To the People's Commissar for Enlightenment
Comrade Lunacharsky

August 8, 1919

In view of the transition of the Central School of Soviet and Party Work of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to your department, we request you to render every possible and urgent assistance in obtaining the necessary food products to strengthen the nutrition of the trainees, among whom considerable emaciation, illnesses of scurvy, anemia and general exhaustion are observed.

Total number of trainees—1100 persons. In recent days 7 cases of scurvy have been registered. The trainees are engaged in intensive work, 8-10 hours per day, while the administration issues only seedlings in enormous quantities, dried vegetables; has completely cut off flour, butter, potatoes and other products necessary for maintaining health. As a result the school is unable to provide any decent nutrition whatsoever. All attempts undertaken by the school administration to obtain products have thus far been unsuccessful, and if you, Comrade Lunacharsky, do not come to the school's assistance in this case, then further work will be unthinkable.

Head of School V. Nevsky
Secretary Kokozhanov

To Comrade Svidersky!
E m e r g e n c y measures of assistance are necessary. Inform me exactly (no later than tomorrow) how much you will provide
1.

1 The note was written by V. I. Lenin on the report from V. I. Nevsky to A. V. Lunacharsky dated August 8, 1919. V. I. Lenin received it together with a letter from A. V. Lunacharsky addressed to him requesting assistance in supplying food to the school's trainees.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

[August 22, 1919]

Most Esteemed Vladimir Ilyich!

We are sending you your interview again. In a few hours Good is leaving; we would be very grateful if you returned the interview now.

With comradely greetings, Georgy Chicherin

No objections and remarks
1.
Lenin

1 Lenin gave an interview (in English) to William T. Good, an English pedagogue, public figure and journalist, professor, who came to Moscow on August 20, 1919 as a correspondent for the English bourgeois-liberal newspaper "The Manchester Guardian." The interview was published in that newspaper on October 21, 1919 in No. 22838.

In the interview Lenin answered Good's questions about the attitude of the Soviet government to the proposals of William Bullitt to the Paris Conference, about the attitude of the Soviet Republic to small nationalities, about the guarantees that the Soviet government was prepared to give regarding propaganda in Western countries. When Good asked Lenin whether he wished to make any general statement, Lenin answered "that the most important thing he must say is that the Soviet system is the best system and that English workers and toiling peasants would have accepted it if they had become acquainted with it," and expressed hope "that after the conclusion of peace the English government would not prevent the publication of the text of the Soviet Constitution." "...Morally," Lenin says, "the Soviet system has already won even now and ... proof of the correctness of this assertion is the persecution of Soviet literature in the free democratic countries." On parting Lenin gave Good his photograph with an inscription in English and Russian: "Aug. 20, 1919 V. Ulyanov (Lenin) 20/8 1919 Wladimir Oulianoff (Lenin)."

Having reviewed the text of his interview with William T. Good, Lenin urgently sent it to G. V. Chicherin by secret packet.

It was not possible to establish when Lenin reviewed the text of his interview with Good for the first time.

The interview was first published in Russian in the newspaper "Izvestiya" No. 30, February 5, 1960 (see "Reminiscences of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Five Volumes. Vol. 5. Reminiscences of Foreign Contemporaries." Moscow, Politizdat, 1970, pp. 243-245).

LETTER TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

August 23, 1919

Comrade Dzerzhinsky!

1) On the attached paper, that is, on this operation
1, it is necessary to pay the greatest attention. Quickly and energetically and broadly it must be seized.
2) The newspaper "Narod"
2 has close ties with the right Socialist-Revolutionaries. Without closing it, it is necessary to track them down
3.

Your Lenin

1 "The attached paper" — this is a report from the Cheka dated August 22, 1919 about the uncovering of the central counter-revolutionary organization "National Center" and about the impending operations to arrest members of this organization.
2 "Narod" — a Socialist-Revolutionary newspaper, appeared weekly from August 17, 1919 in Moscow.
3 In the night of December 28, 1919 the Cheka carried out a series of arrests among the right Socialist-Revolutionaries, including members of the CC of this party. In this way a decisive blow was struck against the party of right Socialist-Revolutionaries, which was acting illegally and pursuing the aim of overthrowing Soviet power.

LETTER TO E. M. SKLYANSKY

September 6 [1919], 7:50 AM

Comrade Sklyansky! Cannot the Council of Defense be postponed to Friday morning? If it is absolutely impossible, then send me a telephonogram about this on Monday (and no later than Tuesday)
1. Contact, please, all members of the Council of Defense: if possible, I would request, as an exception, Friday morning, 11 AM—4 PM.

Your Lenin

P.S. Answer me Monday or Tuesday by telephonogram in any case
2.

SNK will be on Thursday.

1 At a session of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b) on September 6, 1919, a decision was made to permit Lenin a leave of 1-2 weeks with sessions of SNK and the Council of Defense held once a week during this time.
2 Lenin's request was satisfied. The session of the Council of Defense took place on Friday, September 12, 1919.

NOTE TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

To Dzerzhinsky: in my opinion, release (if there are no charges)
1, taking yet 2 more guarantors, who can be punished for escape.
Send a copy of this to M. N. Pokrovsky
2.

September 9 [1919]

Lenin

1 This concerns Professor S. I. Sazonov, who taught physics and chemistry at the 1st Pedagogical Institute and the Institute of Preschool Education in Petrograd, who was arrested along with other scholars in connection with their former membership in the Cadet party. Scientists asked for Sazonov's release under their sponsorship — V. A. Stroyev, A. P. Pinkevich, scholars of the Academy of Sciences, and Professor N. M. Knipovich in a telegram from Petrograd addressed to N. K. Krupskaya as a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment. By decision of the Petrograd provincial Cheka collegium of September 18, 1919, S. I. Sazonov was released.
2 M. N. Pokrovsky — deputy people's commissar for enlightenment.

NOTE TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

To Comrade Dzerzhinsky (or Ksenofontov
1)
or Mantsev
2) (MChK)

In case of any misunderstanding I hereby certify that the bearer, Comrade Vladimir Alexandrovich Obukh
3, came to me for his wife's treatment and is traveling home to Moscow with my chauffeur, Comrade Gil
4.

September 14, 1919

Chairman SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from manuscript

My resolution on the reverse hereof in the lower left corner of September 9, 1919 under No. 10016 retains its force for 1921 as well.

June 27, 1921

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin

1 I. K. Ksenofontov — member of the collegium and deputy chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Sabotage and Speculation under Sovnarkom (Cheka).
2 V. N. Mantsev — chairman of the Moscow Extraordinary Commission (MChK).
3 V. A. Obukh — party member since 1894, physician, in 1919-1929 headed the Moscow Department of Health. Participated in treating V. I. Lenin and members of his family. The note concerns his trip to Gorki, where V. I. Lenin was taking leave with N. K. Krupskaya.
4 S. K. Gil — V. I. Lenin's chauffeur from 1917 to 1924.

NOTE TO D. I. KURSKY

Comrade Kursky! I request you to familiarize yourself with this case
1 and submit your conclusion to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
2.

September 18 [1919]

Lenin

1 This concerns the case of D. D. Makhlina, sentenced by the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal to 15 years' imprisonment for assisting a spy organization.
This note was written by V. I. Lenin on the petition of D. D. Makhlina's brother L. D. Makhlin addressed to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars requesting the conditional release of Makhlina under his responsibility and sponsorship.
2 Having familiarized himself with the case of D. D. Makhlina, people's commissar for justice D. I. Kursky came to the conclusion that until the end of the civil war she could not be released, since her guilt in assisting a spy organization is fully established. His conclusion on this was sent by Kursky to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on October 8, 1919.
On the basis of this conclusion, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee rejected L. D. Makhlin's petition.

NOTE TO M. F. VLADIMIRSKY

Comrade Vladimirsky! A mother's complaint about the slandering, persecution and arrest of her son (former junker officer and then twice elected chairman of the Karachev Executive Committee).
I request you to appoint an investigation (sign me under the request for it)
1 and i n f o r m m e o f t h e r e s u l t s.

September 23 [1919]

Lenin

1 The note was written by V. I. Lenin on a letter from schoolteacher A. Antonova from the village of Molodovoe in Karachev District of Oryol Province with a request for assistance in releasing her son M. T. Antonov, former chairman of the Karachev District Executive Committee, accused by local authorities of a criminal offense expressed in the purchase of cloth, and imprisoned in the Oryol jail. In the letter from Antonova (on six large sheets) V. I. Lenin made numerous underlinings during reading.
2 In connection with V. I. Lenin's note, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, signed by deputy people's commissar M. F. Vladimirsky and deputy head of the administration department N. N. Chisyakov, sent on September 25, 1919 a telegram to the Oryol provincial executive committee with a proposal to urgently investigate at Lenin's request the reasons for Antonov's arrest and imprisonment in jail and to send immediately to the NKVD the material about his activities.

INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY

[September 30, 1919]

Make a copy and tomorrow (1/X) send to Frunze
2 (through Sklyansky), while Frunze is here, with a note from me that I request a recommendation and recommend Chugurin as an excellent party member.
Lenin

1 The instruction was written by V. I. Lenin on a letter from I. D. Chugurin and A. S. Kuklin, working in the political department of the 4th Army, dated August 28, 1919 addressed to N. K. Krupskaya. The letter reported on the difficult situation of the army conducting an offensive toward Guryev across steppe and sandy terrain and experiencing a shortage of water. "But the main thing that is dangerous for us," the letter said, "is the lack of uniforms, the lack of shoes... There is no change of underwear, and Red Army soldiers wear sometimes upper and sometimes lower underwear... You see that over recent times it is advancing, and 2/3 have no bayonets... Political work under these conditions is very difficult, as Red Army soldiers often demand in place of words uniforms... We need literature in the Tatar language now... We need to have literature, this in the Tatar language, musical instruments, for which comrades have been sent. They need assistance..."
Reading the letter, Lenin underlined the quoted passages.
An extract from the letter of Chugurin and Kuklin by Lenin's instruction was sent on October 7, 1919 to Tsentropeçhat and the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment.
2 M. V. Frunze — commander of the Turkestan Front.

NOTE TO L. D. TROTSKY

Comrade Trotsky! Should not this be made public and an appeal published from you + from the Orgburo (+ from me, if you wish)?
1

September 30 [1919]

Lenin

1 The note was written by V. I. Lenin on a telegram addressed to him from the Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet G. E. Zinovyev dated September 30, 1919 about the first results of the political mobilization of responsible workers for the Southern Front. This work was being conducted according to the decision of the plenums of the CC RCP(b) of September 21 and 26, 1919, adopted at V. I. Lenin's proposal. "...Today the first group of 40 people is leaving," the telegram reported. "It includes the most responsible workers of Petrograd — members of the Bureau, members of the Presidium of the Soviet and of the Council of Professional Unions. Tomorrow the second group of 70 people is leaving, the day after tomorrow—the rest. Among them are some district committees in their entirety. Those departing for the front are being replaced by new ones. In all districts there is a wave of volunteerism, we have to refuse people. An all-city meeting of active workers held today expressed unanimous readiness to immediately send large groups of active workers to the Southern Front. The decision of the union executive boards is the same."
2 Such an appeal in the press was not found. In the newspapers "Pravda" and "Izvestiya VTSIK," Nos. 221 of October 4, 1919, V. I. Lenin's article "The Example of the Petrograd Workers" was published (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 39, pp. 206-208).

LETTER TO B. G. KOZLOVSKY

October 2, 1919

Comrade Kozlovsky!

I was told about you by comrades Serebryakov and Rosengolts. Apparently, with the departure of the latter
1 you might find yourself, so to speak, "alone." Then I request you to write me directly with an exposition of the state of affairs and requests.
Inform me of receiving this letter
2.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

1 This refers to the departure of A. P. Rosengolts from Petrograd, where he was from June 30 to September 30, 1919 as member of the Revvoensoviet of the 7th Army, to the 13th Army, to which he was appointed member of the Revvoensoviet from October 7, 1919.
2 See on this also V. I. Lenin's note to L. P. Serebryakov and the resolution on B. G. Kozlovsky's letter (present collection, p. 158).

TO A SECURITY CERTIFICATE FOR N. V. KORZLINSKY

[October 9, 1919]

I hereby confirm this certificate
1, and also declare that searches in this apartment
2 are permissible only on the basis of a special Cheka directive.

Chairman SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from manuscript

My resolution on the reverse hereof in the lower left corner of October 9, 1919 under No. 10016 retains its force for 1921 as well.

June 27, 1921

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin