V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY [1]

In code
28. VII, 1919

Trotsky at his present whereabouts

The Politbureau of the C.C. discussed your telegram
No. 277/c. It fully agrees with you about the danger of any
kind of waverings in the firm carrying out of the plan once
it has been adopted. [3] The Politbureau fully recognises the
operational authority of the Commander-in-Chief and asks
you to make this clear to all top-level executives. The
Politbureau appoints Smilga, Serebryakov and Lashevich as
members of the Revolutionary Military Council of the
Southern Front in addition to the former ones. [2]

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Notes:
[1]
Transmitted by direct line.— Ed.

[2]
Lenin wrote further:
“On behalf of the C.C., Stasova .”— Ed .

[3]
This refers to the plan of struggle against Denikin drawn up by
the Commander-in-Chief, S. S. Kamenev. According to this plan,
the main attack was to be delivered by the left wing of the
Southern Front via the Don Region with a secondary attack in the
Kharkov direction. The plan was expounded in a directive of the
Supreme Command dated July 23, 1919 (see Iz istorii grazhdanskoi voiny v SSSR , Vol. 2, 1961, pp. 499–500). On July 27, 1919, L. D.
Trotsky sent a telegram to E. M. Sklyansky, Deputy Chairman
of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, in which
he reported that “Commander of the Southern Front Yegoriev
considers Kamenev’s operational plan for the south to be wrong,