V. I.

Lenin

147

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV [1]

Comrade Zinoviev:

This shows that Trotsky is in a highly scrappy mood.
Shatunovsky’s pamphlet is pure twaddle. Return this to me with a note about your decisions and plans on this
matter. [2]

3/ V. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written on L. D. Trotsky’s letter, in which, replying to Lenin’s
letter of April 30, 1921 (see this volume, Document 146), he tried
to stand up for Shatunovsky’s pamphlet, White Coal and Revolutionary Petrograd . Lenin made a number of remarks on Trotsky’s
letter (see Lenin Miscellany XX , pp. 208–09).

[2]
In reply to Lenin’s inquiry, G. Y. Zinoviev informed him on
May 5 about the decision to suspend construction on the Svir,
concentrating all the efforts on completing the operations on the
Utkina Zavod sector in 1921, and not stopping construction on
the Volkhov under any circumstances.