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To:   V. M. MOLOTOV AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

To Comrade Molotov with a request to circulate it among
all members of the Politbureau.

It is necessary (1) to find out who is “Kurzhnir”?

Could he be Kushner, the author of the pamphlet on electrification?

(2) There is need to devote more attention to
Myasnikov’s agitation, and report about him and about it to the
Politbureau twice a month .

(3) The Politbureau should have a special discussion on how to respond to this
letter. [1]

5/ XII. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written on a copy of G. I. Myasnikov’s letter to engineer
B. A. Kurzhner, a Party member in Petrograd, in which
Myasnikov proposed to intensify, in connection with the forthcoming
Eleventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), subversive activity against
the Party’s policy.

The Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee discussed
G. I. Myasnikov’s case at several of its sittings, and on February
20, 1922, approved the proposal of a Politbureau commission
to expel him from the Party for gross breach of Party discipline
and anti-Party activity.