DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b)
1) Summon Gusaynov and Akhundov without delay.
2) Demand the strict, complete cessation of factional struggles in Baku and throughout Azerbaijan.
3) Affirm that those engaged in factional struggles will be expelled from the Party.
4) Instruct the comrades dispatched from the RSFSR to Azerbaijan to verify compliance with these directives.
5) Task Stalin with drafting, by Monday, a directive on the implementation of the Communist Party’s national policy in Azerbaijan.
6) Regarding Persia, reiterate this instruction with utmost rigor, and do so forthwith.
Written on October 15, 1921.
First published in 1958 in the journal “Questions of the History of the CPSU,” No. 2.

Printed from the manuscript.