Letter to Lev Kamenev, October 4, 1922

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Comrade Kamenev:

I have just seen Mikhailov. I am having second thoughts again. I am against the Urquhart concession. Let’s get together at my place at 9.30 today (I shall be at the dentist at 8.30).[1]

Lenin

  1. On October 5, the Plenum of the RCP(b) Central Committee and on October 6, the CPC adopted decisions rejecting the preliminary agreement with Leslie Urquhart (see Izvestia VTsIK No. 226, October 7, 1922).
    However, Lenin, the Party CC and the Soviet Government did not rule out the possibility of returning to the question of granting Urquhart a concession. In this connection Lenin believed it to be necessary once again to verify most thoroughly all the terms of the concession. In particular, he proposed a reduction in area of the concession and the amounts Urquhart was to receive (see this volume, Document 768, and also present edition, Vol. 42, p. 424).