V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. L. PYATAKOV AND M. I. FRUMKIN

Comrades Pyatakov and Frumkin
Copies to Comrades Stalin and Kamenev

The telegram received about Comrade Krasin’s meeting with Urquhart’s agent makes us hasten with the insertion
of the discussion articles on this question. That is why
I request that Pyatakov’s article should be inserted in
Pravda tomorrow, with the reservation that it is being carried by way of discussion. The day after, insert
Frumkin’s article, or anyone else’s according to his choice.

I think it would be better for us to have both articles
signed, but this requires a re-decision on what was decided by the Politbureau, that is why the question of
signing the article should be left open until tonight. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A probable reference to the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C.
decision of October 26, 1922, in connection with the proposal
to issue a popular pamphlet on the Urquhart agreement. The
Politbureau decided to set up a commission “to review and write
as soon as possible articles on the Urquhart agreement”
consisting of G. L. Pyatakov and B. S. Stomonyakov and approved
instructions for the commission in which it defined the content
of the articles.

The discussion articles under the general title, “On the
Question of the Urquhart Concession Rejected by the C.P.C.”, were
published in several issues of Pravda (October 31, and
November 1 to 3, 1922).