V. I.

Lenin

511

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

If that is how the question is put, then dictate to your
secretary a protest against the Narrow Council and a draft
decree for the Full Council (that the Narrow Council should not interfere in local affairs without special reasons
and is always obliged to make inquiries from local Soviets
except in cases of extreme urgency). [1]

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Notes:
[1]
In a note to Lenin, Kamenev protested against the decision of
the Narrow Council of People’s Commissars to close down the
Nikitsky Theatre. Kamenev believed this question came within
the competence of the local, and not the central, authorities, in
this case the Moscow Department of Education. On January 20,
1920, the Council of People’s Commissars discussed the closure
of the Nikitsky Theatre. It endorsed the decision of the Narrow
Council and instructed it “to call in representatives of the