V. I.

Lenin

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NOTE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.) WITH THE DRAFT OF A TELEGRAM TO SH. Z. ELIAVA AND J. E. RUDZUTAK [1]

To the Members of the Politbureau:

I propose sending a code telegram to Eliava and
Rudzutak:

“ We insist on the strictest fulfilment of the C.C.
decisions on foreign policy. Remove Heller and Broido from
office immediately and completely. Hand over all affairs
to Golub, Mashitsky and Gopner alone. Fulfil immediately all the other directives of the C.C. and report precise
fulfilment. We warn you that further procrastination or
evasion on your part from subordination to the Central
Committee of the Party will entail penalties.”

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written by Lenin following the systematic violations by the
Turkestan Commission of the decision of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
prescribing that relations with Bukhara, Khiva, Persia and
Afghanistan were to be controlled by the People’s Commissariat for
Foreign Affairs. By its decision of September 29, 1919, the
Orgbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) had charged the Turkestan
Commission with the conduct of foreign relations in accordance with
the instructions and under the control of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. The Turkestan Commission, however,
did not carry out the instructions of the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs. The latter demanded that G. I. Broido
should be removed from leadership of the Department of Foreign
Relations and that a department be set up consisting of A. N.
Golub, A. A. Mashitsky, D. Y. Gopner and a representative of the
Turkestan Central Executive Committee endorsed by the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, but the Turkestan Commission
refused to comply and appointed Heller head of the Department
of Foreign Relations.

By a decision of the Politbureau of the Central Committee
of the R.C.P.(B.) on March 17, 1920, foreign policy functions
were taken out of the hands of the Turkestan Commission, and
the Department of Foreign Relations was made directly subordinate to the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. But
the Turkestan Commission objected to this. Golub, Mashitsky
and Gopner were removed from office and forbidden to communicate with the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. The
inquiries of the Commissariat went unanswered.

The last sentence in the manuscript was deleted and left out
in the telegram.