NOTE ON A LETTER FROM I. V. STALIN
August 20, 1920
To the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP
I propose to order the member of the Revolutionary Military Council
of the Caucasian Front, Comrade Ordzhonikidze, to immediately
depart for Rostov and begin performing the duties of a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Front, leaving as his deputy in Baku
one of the members of the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee or someone
else at his discretion*.
Stalin
I am in favor.
Lenin