Lenin: Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the Commander-in-Chief's Protest Concerning the Order to the Commander of the Turkestan Front












V. I.

Lenin



Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on
The Commander-in-Chief’s Protest Concerning the Order to the Commander of the Turkestan Front[1]


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Written: Written January 17 or 18, 1920

Published:

First published in 1965 in the Fifth Russian Edition of the Collected Works, Vol. 54.

Printed from the manuscript.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

2nd English Edition,

Progress Publishers,

1971,

Moscow,

Volume 42,

pages 159b-160a.


Translated: Bernard Isaacs


Transcription\Markup:
D. Walters


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1) The order by Lenin and Trotsky given by telegram is
found to be correct.

2) Exception taken to the form of this order is considered
a case of undesirable military bureaucratism.

3) The Commander-in-Chief is to he notified that his verbal
protest made through Comrade Smilga has been considered



and found incorrect. When an opinion is asked for, it should be given.




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Notes





[1]

This draft decision was adopted by the Politbureau of the C.C.,
R.C.P.(B.) on January 17-18, 1920, in connection with the protest of the
Commander-in-Chief concerning the telegram with Lenin’s postscript which
the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic
L. D. Trotsky sent to M. V. Frunze, Commander of the Turkestan Front and
G. K. Voskanov, Commander of the 4th Army, on January 17, 1920. The
telegram asked for energetic steps to be taken to build the Emba Railway
and rebuild the Krasny Kut-Alexandrov Gai railway to a wide gauge (see
Collected Works, Vol. 51, Fifth Russian Edition, Document
207).




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