397. UNDERLININGS AND AN INSTRUCTION ON A TELEGRAM FROM P. I. VOYEVODIN

Written on July 25, 1919 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. · page 269

... The crops in Samara Gubernia are unprecedented for many decades. Lack of necessary work hands threatens to ruin the bumper   crop now ready for harvesting in Samara Gubernia, which alone could feed famine-stricken Soviet Russia. All available work hands should be sent immediately to the Volga region; pitch, tar, available implements, must be dispatched to the peasants.

Voyevodin
Political Commissar
of the “October Revolution” train

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1) To Svidersky
2) To Glebov
3) To Sereda

All efforts must he exerted. Inform me by telephone during the day tomorrow, 26/7, what has been done.