358. TELEGRAM TO D. I. YEFREMOV, MEMBER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 10th ARMY

Written on June 6, 1919 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 248

In code

Yefremov, Member of R.M.C. 10
Tsaritsyn

It was not at all a question of illegal organisations and by no means of leaving it.^[1] I am surprised that such a strange idea could have entered your head. The question was that of total mobilisation of all Tsaritsyn workers and of using all methods of revolutionary, most energetic war with especially stern purging of the rear. Telegraph precisely what urgent measures you are adopting.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Apparently, this refers to Lenin’s telegram to D. I. Yefremov dated May 30, 1919 (see present edition, Vol. 35, Document 202). —Ed.