148. TELEGRAM TO NIZHNI-RIVERSIDE

Written on June 8, 1918 · First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII. Printed from a text written in an unknown hand corrected and signed by V. I. Lenin. · page 335

Urgent. Nizhni-Riverside.
Copies to Saratov, Tsaritsyn

You are instructed to carry out immediately and without question all orders and instructions of People’s Commissar Stalin, extraordinary plenipotentiary of the Council of People’s Commissars.

Transmit to Stalin: copies of all his orders and instructions must be sent immediately to Nizhni-Riverside, Volga Regional Authority.

Contents of this telegram to be passed on at once to all districts.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars