164. TELEGRAM TO M. F. BOLDYREV

First published in 1927 in the magazine Revolutsia i Kultura No. 2. Printed from the original. · page 353

Boldyrev
Executive Committee
Zadonsk

August 17, 1918

Act in the most resolute way against the kulaks and the Left Socialist-Revolutionary scoundrels who have made common cause with them. Issue appeals to the poor peasants. Organise them. Ask for help from Yelets. Essential to suppress the kulak extortioners mercilessly. Telegraph.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars