109. TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO G. I. PETROVSKY AND M. V. FRUNZE

Telephone Message to Kharkov Petrovsky and Frunze

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from the original. · page 111

Pyatakov has been strongly requesting my help in getting Sergei Syrtsov from Odessa as a secretary to Donbas. Pyatakov has accused the Ukrainian Communist Party C.C. of unwillingness to let him have Syrtsov only because of factional fears, since Syrtsov is said to be a Trotskyite. Pyatakov declares that both he and Syrtsov promise not to conduct any factional policies. I don’t know Syrtsov. Please collect all information and reply to me.

30/III.1921. Lenin