October 10, 1919

The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, in accordance with their decree of October 8, 1919, hereby authorize M. V. Frunze, as a member of the Commission for Turkestan Affairs, to represent the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars and to act in their name within the limits of Turkestan and the neighboring states adjoining it, and to facilitate the implementation in practice of the principles set forth in section 3 of the aforementioned decree*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

* In section 3 of the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of October 8, 1919, it was stated that "the self-determination of the peoples of Turkestan and the elimination of all national inequality and privileges of one national group at the expense of another—constitute the basis of all the policy of the Soviet government of Russia and serve as the guiding principle in all the work of its organs, and that only through such work can one finally overcome the distrust of the indigenous laboring masses of Turkestan toward the workers and peasants of Russia, created by many years of domination by Russian tsarism" (Archive of IMEL, No. 24168).

# MANDATE TO V. V. KUIBYSHEV
October 10, 1919

The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, in accordance with their decree of October 8, 1919, hereby authorize V. V. Kuibyshev, as a member of the Commission for Turkestan Affairs, to represent the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars and to act in their name within the limits of Turkestan and the neighboring states adjoining it, and to facilitate the implementation in practice of the principles set forth in section 3 of the aforementioned decree.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

# INQUIRY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC*
October 12, 1919

Have those guilty been brought to trial?

Lenin

* The inquiry was written by Lenin on a report concerning the surrender of Tambov to the White Guard bandits of Mamontov on August 18, 1919. The commandant of the Tambov fortified district, the members of the Military Council of this district, and other officials guilty of the surrender of Tambov were condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Republic.