V. I.   Lenin

214

TELEGRAM TO V. A. RADUS-ZENKOVICH


Published: First published (facsimile) in 1930 in Grazhdanskaya voina, 1918–21, Vol. III. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [1976], Moscow, Volume 35, page 406.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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July 8, 1910

Zenkovich, Chairman of the Gubernia Executive Committee
Saratov
Copy to Kurayev,
Member of the Revolutionary Military Council 4
Copy to Plaksin, Chairman of the Gubernia Party Committee
Copy to Krylenko
Copy to Yaroslavsky

Telegraph as precisely as possible, if necessary in code, what practical successes you have achieved, and whether there is a change of mood in the garrison. It is essential that special detachments should go round all the volosts of the front-line area and work them over—organising the poor peasants, removing the kulaks, taking hostages from among them, suppressing the “Greens”,[1] returning deserters to duty. Particular attention to Atkarsk Uyezd and Rtishchevo. I await a detailed factual reply.

Lenin
Chairman, Defence Council


Notes

[1] Lenin refers to the counter-revolutionary bands marauding in the rear of the Soviet forces.


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