89. To A. G. GOIKHBARG

To the Narrow Council

Written on March 12, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 96

Comrade Goikhbarg:

Read this letter from the representative of Soviet Georgia, especially what is underscored (p. 3).

It is necessary immediately

1) to put through an injunction on sending (without the permission of the Narrow Council), and to give permission with the utmost circumspection,^[1]

2) to make regular check-ups on execution.

12/III. Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on a letter from F. I. Makharadze reporting the military and political situation in Georgia. On the letter Lenin wrote: “Return to me.” On page 3 of the letter, Lenin under underscored the passage where Makharadze speaks out against the dispatch to Georgia of a great number of authorised agents agents from the centre.

On March 14, 1921, the Narrow C.P.C. passed a decision prohibiting all the People’s Commissariats from sending their agents to Georgia without Special C.P.C. permission in each case.