V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on The Question of the Far-Eastern Republic

I move that we agree with Chicherin and authorise him to
draw up precise and brief directives concerning the Far Eastern
Republic in the form of a draft resolution . [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In a letter to the Politbureau dated October 7, 1921, G. V. Chicherin,
Peolpe’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, wrote that the Government of the
Far Eastern Republic wished to be briefed by the Politbureau on the
following points: 1) Is recognition of the F.-E.R. by Japan and America
desirable in the absence of simultaneous recognition by them of the
R.S.F.S.R.; 2) Should the offer by foreigners to grant state loans to the
F.-E.R. be accepted; 3) Is the F.-E.R. independent of the R.S.F.S.R. in
fact as well as in form. In the opinion of the Commissariat for Foreign
Affairs these questions were to be answered in the following manner: 1)
Recognition of the F.-E.R. is desirable, but without the structure of the
F.-E.R. being specified in the agreement; 2) Foreign loans are useful
provided the sovereign rights of the F.-E.R. are preserved; 3) The
F.-E.R. is to be considered independent of the R.S.F.S.R. only inform.

Lenin’s motion was adopted by the Politbureau on
October 8, 1921.

The draft directives to the F.-E.R. proposed by
Chicherin were endorsed by the Politbureau on October 10, 1921.