Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

38

TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Written: Written on January 30 (February 12), 1918
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the text written by Lenin and Stalin and signed by Lenin.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 62^c-63^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Commander-in-Chief Antonov
Nikitovka^[1]

We have nothing against the appointment of Kozhevnikov. Make contact with Obolensky and the All-Ukraine C.E.C. Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the C.E.C.; if there are no objections on their part, we agree to the appointment of Kozhevnikov as Commissar Extraordinary of the Donets Basin.

Lenin

Notes

[1] The address and sentences: “We have nothing against” and “Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the C.E.C.” were written in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.