V. I.

Lenin

95

TELEGRAM TO L. B. KRASIN [1]

Code

Krasin

The Party Congress has approved the line I advocated on concessions in Grozny and in
Baku. [3] Speed up negotiations on these as on all other concessions. Send
information more often.

Lenin [2]

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Notes:
[1]
At the top Lenin added: “Comrade Chicherin: Please send
in code, today if possible. 19/III. Lenin .”— Ed.

[2]
The telegram is also signed by G. V. Chicherin.— Ed.

[3]
A reference to the resolution of the Tenth Congress of the
R.C.P.(B.) “The Soviet Republic and the Capitalist
Encirclement” (see Desyaty syezd RKP(b). Mart 1921 goda. Stenografichesky otchet [The Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), March
1921. Verbatim Report], Moscow, 1963, pp. 610–12).