February 4

The Central Committee does not insist on Your trip* provided that in the course of the coming weeks You concentrate all Your attention and all Your energy on servicing the Caucasian Front, subordinating to it the interests of the Southwest Front. Arzhanov is being sent to Voronezh to accelerate the necessary transfers. We request that You render him the necessary assistance and correctly inform us of the progress of the transfers.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from machine copy.

* The reference is to I. V. Stalin's trip to the Caucasian Front.

RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM OF G. I. PETROVSKY*
February 7, 1920

Read by telephone to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine and record his reply.

TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE RESERVE ARMY
Kazan
February 8, 1920

Moscow, Petrograd, the armies of the Southwest Front and North Front are on the eve of the cessation of bread distribution. The Council of Defense instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Reserve Army to strain all efforts for loading bread along the Kazan railway and dispatching it according to the instructions of the food organizations. The slightest delay will lead to the exhaustion of all grain reserves within three to five days. Report by telegraph daily on the measures being taken and the results, indicating the loading locations.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

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

# LETTER TO S. P. SEREDA AND A. D. TSYURUPA
February 14, 1920

I call particular attention to the extremely sensible article in *Pravda* of February 11, "Do Not Waste Time."

* In his telegram, G. I. Petrovsky requested an investigation concerning the refusal to accept telegrams in the Ukrainian language by the telegraph controller of the XIV Army.