Date: 1920-08-13
Source: ru:LS/v39

The secretary of the Petrograd Soviet, G. E. Zinoviev, delivered a report on Norwegian and German workers residing in Petrograd and Moscow.
This issue had repeatedly been brought before state authorities at the time (see V. I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works, Volume 51, p. 193;
Lenin Collection, Volume XXXVIII, pp. 322–325).
On August 5, 1920, the question of the immigration of foreign workers into the RSFSR was discussed at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b), where a series of concrete measures were adopted. The Plenum instructed Lenin to assign the People’s Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR, D. I. Kursky, the task of investigating all circumstances pertaining to the situation of Norwegian workers in Petrograd and Moscow.
On August 31, 1920, Kursky prepared a detailed report addressed to the Chairman of the Sovnarkom, V. I. Lenin. The report provided a thorough account of the living and working conditions established for a group of Norwegian workers in Petrograd and Moscow.
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MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY 1
[August 13, 1920]
1) If we fail today (3–4), then we’ll try again tomorrow.
2) Same.
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P e t i t 2 (via Abramovich) 3.
1 Written on a note from K. Steingardt (Gruber), a delegate to the Second Congress of the Comintern representing the Communist Party of German Austria, requesting admission for himself and K. Toman. They were accepted on August 14.
2 Lepti was a worker, an anarchist, and an active figure in the French trade union movement. In 1920, he attended the Second Congress of the Comintern as a representative of the committee advocating the affiliation of the left wing of the General Confederation of Labour with the Third International.
3 A. E. Abramovich had been a member of the Party since 1908. Following the October Socialist Revolution, he served in the Red Army and worked at the Comintern (until 1931). From 1932 onward, he devoted himself to Party work, later transitioning to pedagogical activities.
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INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY 1
[August 13, 1920]
Arrange a call with Karakhan and schedule a meeting for tomorrow (12–4).
1 The instruction was written on a note from the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, G. V. Chicherin, who reported that the delegation of the Turkish government was about to…