1920
25133
RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM FROM THE COUNCIL OF THE CAUCASUS
LABOR ARMY
April 24, 1920
To the Proceedings
Session of the Council of Defense (Smilga had no authority for this)*
2283
MEMORANDUM ON THE DIRECT WIRE FROM G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasus Front**
No Later than April 25, 1920

I authorize you to announce to the mountaineers that I promise to conduct financial assistance to them through the Council of People's Commissars. Disburse to them on account of this up to 200 million. Narimanov will leave for Petrovsk in the next few days in accordance with your proposal. You may inform Mr. Uratadze*** on your own behalf that the government has no objection to his arrival in Moscow, and I fully agree with you that there is no need to hurry his departure from Rostov to Moscow, wherefore I leave it to your discretion to designate the day of departure as you see fit. Regarding the question of land relations, you may act independently, however informing [us] of the measures you undertake in this sphere. I request more frequent reports. I request that you accelerate the transfer of units to the South-Western Front.

Lenin

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

* This concerns the appointment of a deputy chairman of the Council of the Caucasus Labor Army without the knowledge and confirmation of the Council of Labor and Defense.
** The document bears a notation by I. V. Stalin: "Draft reply" and a note by V. I. Lenin: "I request this be transmitted tonight over the direct wire to Rostov-on-the-Don. Lenin."
*** Uratadze—representative of the Menshevik government of Georgia, who arrived in Rostov intending to proceed from there to Moscow for diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet government—was detained in Rostov by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasus Front, as reported to V. I. Lenin by G. K. Ordzhonikidze.

41116
RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL
OF THE CAUCASUS FRONT*
April 30, 1920
To Stalin and Chicherin.

25143
RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL
OF THE XI ARMY
April 28, 1920

To Stalin for discussion: should this be printed?

On April 27 Baku was occupied by the advance detachments of our army and armored trains**. The Azerbaijani working masses, with the assistance of the Red Army, overthrew the bourgeois government and established Soviet power. The valiant units of the XI Army accomplished in both days a two-hundred-verst march and by their lightning strike prevented the infernal design of the bourgeoisie, which sought to destroy the oil treasures before its retreat. This is our First of May subbotnik. The multi-million reserves of oil have now been wrested from the hands of international bourgeoisie and have become the patrimony of the proletariat... The working masses of Azerbaijan are welcoming the Red Army with enthusiasm as their liberator from the yoke of capital. The Red Army men are conducting themselves as worthy sons of the proletarian state. Long live Soviet Azerbaijan! Long live the Red Army!

* In the telegram addressed to V. I. Lenin it was reported: "Ordzhonikidze in his memorandum asks you not to hurry with Uratadze." The Revolutionary Military Council supported this statement of Comrade Ordzhonikidze.
** "Pravda" reported the establishment of Soviet power in Baku on April 29. On the same day V. I. Lenin noted this fact in his speech at the congress of workers of the glass and porcelain production (see Works, vol. XXV, p. 252).