AND TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. A. AVANESOV,

A. S. ENUKIDZE, A. YA. BELEN'KY

To Fotiyeva or Glässer

I request that the following telephone message be distributed:

To Avanesov
To Enukidze
To Belen'ky (VChK)

Today, the 13th of July, I have again been sent not a finished brochure, composed and printed (the "Directive of the SNK" and the Resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee), but only page proofs, uncompiled, in draft form.

It is evident that both printing houses—that of the VChK and that of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee—are sabotaging. Delay, outrageous obstruction, intolerable obstruction.

I request that you accelerate the matter and punish those responsible for the delays—the managers of both printing houses.

Please do not refuse to inform me what you have done.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin from the manuscript

Written July 13, 1921

First published incompletely in 1945 in the Lenin Collection XXXV

Published in full for the first time