217. TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

217

TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, page 170b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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12. XII. 1918

Trotsky
Voronezh
or present whereabouts

Astrakhan wires re necessity of stepping up work by the flotilla[1]in view of the uprising of the Bolsheviks in Georgia and the highly dangerous menace of a British advance. Would you not find it useful if Raskolnikov, who for some reason is hanging around in Moscow, were sent to Astrakhan?

Lenin

Notes

[1] The Astrakhan-Caspian naval flotilla.—Ed.