NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV AND NOTES ON THE NOTE1
[May 15, 1920]
Yes, something along these lines is indeed necessary. Through the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities?
The main issue is that we lack strong, capable forces.
Where? Who? Yes, number 2.
1 Written in response to L. B. Kamenev’s proposal to establish a federal council for the unified leadership of the work in the national republics of Bashkiria, Turkestan, and the North Caucasus.
2 In Kamenev’s statement: “We need to send ‘a man’ there,” Lenin placed a small cross (x) above the word “man” and wrote in the margin: “x—where? who?” To the phrase: “This is for the future Politburo,” he added: “Yes.”