V. I.

Lenin

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To:   N. P. GORBUNOV [1]

Comrade Gorbunov:

Send an inquiry to the All-Russia Cheka .

There is nothing “accidental” in Tikhvinsky’s arrest:
chemistry and counter-revolution are not incompatible.

3/IX.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin wrote this note in connection with the petition from, the

Russian Physico-Chemical Society requesting the release of M. M.

Tikhvinsky, professor of chemistry, and other scientists arrested in the case of a Petrograd counter-revolutionary organisation.