12. To G. I. BLAGONRAVOV AND V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Written on December 8 (21), 1817 · First published in part in 1960 in Voprosy Istorii KPSS No. 6. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original. · page 49

8. XII. 1917

Comrades Blagonravov and Bonch-Bruyevich

The arrests which have to be carried out on the orders of Comrade Peters are of exceptionally great importance and must be executed with great energy.^[1] Special measures must be taken to prevent destruction of papers, flight, concealment of documents, etc.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] This refers to the arrest of counter-revolutionaries.—Ed.