Letter to Lev Kamenev, October 6, 1922

Author(s)	Lenin
Written	6 October 1922

Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 573b-574a.

Keywords : Lev Kamenev

Comrade Kamenev:

Today I have a swollen cheek and am running a temperature. I plan not to leave either for the CC this morning or for the CLD tonight.

Let’s keep in touch by paper.

Then, could I see Comrade Chubar?

Ask him whether he can come to see me this morning, now, before 2 o’clock?^[1]

Yours,

Lenin

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54
Printed from the original

Comrade Kamenev:

You haven’t forgotten to take from Krasin the formulations of the second argument against the Urquhart concession (our dissatisfaction with the trade agreement, its defects)? You must take it.

Lenin

P.S. What’s new at the plenum?^[2]

↑ On October 9, 1922, Lenin saw V. Y. Chubar, head of the State Coal Industry of Donbas.
Lenin attached great importance to the rehabilitation of the Donets Coal Basin, showed a constant interest in its work and did everything to help restore and develop it. On October 6, 1922, V. A. Smolyaninov sent Chubar a letter containing Lenin’s request to reply briefly to questions about the supply of Donbas. “Let us know the result of your talks. How much do you want and how much are they giving you?”
To the letter is attached a note from Smolyaninov addressed to Lenin. It says: “Vladimir Ilyich, I have sent off the letter to Chubar. Perhaps I should send copies to Kamenev and Rykov? 6/X.” Below that Lenin wrote: “You should” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).
↑ The Plenum of the RCP(b) Central Committee was held from October 5 to 7, 1922. Lenin attended the October 5 sitting, but not the others because of illness.
The register of Lenin’s outgoing documents, under the head “Execution”, has a secretarial note saying that L. B. Kamenev’s reply was received on October 7 and “handed to Vladimir Ilyich” (the reply has not been found).

[1] On October 9, 1922, Lenin saw V. Y. Chubar, head of the State Coal Industry of Donbas.
Lenin attached great importance to the rehabilitation of the Donets Coal Basin, showed a constant interest in its work and did everything to help restore and develop it. On October 6, 1922, V. A. Smolyaninov sent Chubar a letter containing Lenin’s request to reply briefly to questions about the supply of Donbas. “Let us know the result of your talks. How much do you want and how much are they giving you?”
To the letter is attached a note from Smolyaninov addressed to Lenin. It says: “Vladimir Ilyich, I have sent off the letter to Chubar. Perhaps I should send copies to Kamenev and Rykov? 6/X.” Below that Lenin wrote: “You should” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).

[2] The Plenum of the RCP(b) Central Committee was held from October 5 to 7, 1922. Lenin attended the October 5 sitting, but not the others because of illness.
The register of Lenin’s outgoing documents, under the head “Execution”, has a secretarial note saying that L. B. Kamenev’s reply was received on October 7 and “handed to Vladimir Ilyich” (the reply has not been found).

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