238. To G. Y. ZINOVIEV FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.^[1]

Written in July, not before the fifth, 1921 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53. Printed from the original. · page 205

Comrade Zinoviev;

I think we should agree, as an exception, with the exception strictly specified. Please have this put through the Politbureau by telephone right away.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on G. V. Chicherin’s letter of July 9, 1921, reporting the proposal of Fridtjof Nansen, representing the International Red Cross, to send food to the population of Petrograd, provided its distribution was supervised with the participation of a foreign representative (see Note 229).