V. I.

Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

23- VIII-21

Trotsky

Kamenev

Stalin

Molotov

Zinoviev

Concerning Zinoviev’s proposal to reprove Steklov for his tactless article
“On Leftism” [1] —I think this should not be done just now.

It seems to me that Solts’s item in Pravda on this matter
was sufficient. Steklov will undoubtedly draw the right
conclusion from this item, so that the Politbureau’s intervention just now would be premature.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
On Lenin’s manuscript there is this note by a secretary: “Talked
with Comrade Rakosi: he promised to find out and give a written
reply.” On September 9, 1921, I. S. Unschlicht, Deputy
Chairman of the All-Russia Cheka, informed Lenin that in view of
Adolphe Carm’s release, he was being allowed to leave the territory
of the R.S.F.S.R., and his case had been quashed.