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Letter to Vyacheslav Molotov for all Members of the Politbureau of the RCP(b) CC, January 3, 1922
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Dictated by phone on January 3, 1922
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 426a.
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 426a.
Keywords : Letter, Vyacheslav Molotov
Comrade Molotov for all members of the Politbureau (concerning Chicherinâs reference to Bogdanovâs letter to Urquhart)
I think it would be useful to appoint an inquiry, but we should not disavow Bogdanovâs move, let us consider; first, let all Politbureau members have a text of Bogdanovâs letter; second, let us await the results of the inquiry; third, we still have enough time to decide on our terms after the resumption of the talks. [This][1] does not bind us in any way, and may to some extent be useful to us.[2]
Lenin
- â Omission in the text restored according to meaning.âEd.
- â A reference to G. V. Chicherinâs letter to the Politbureau of the RCP(b) CC of December 2, 1921, saying that, according to information received from L. B. Krasin in London, SEC Chairman P. A. Bogdanov had allegedly written a letter to Leslie Urquhart about resuming the concession talks which he had broken off. Chicherin felt that Bogdanovâs letter could be interpreted as the Soviet Governmentâs surrender to private capital, and requested a repudiation.
This question was examined by the Politbureau on January 12, 1922. In accordance with Leninâs proposal, the Politbureau instructed I. S. Unschlicht, Deputy Chairman of the All-Russia Cheka, to investigate how Bogdanovâs letter to Taube, which had been sent on to Krasin in London, got into Urquhartâs hands. The Politbureau agreed with the Peopleâs Commissariat for Foreign Affairs that Bogdanov had made a mistake by addressing himself to Taube in circumvention of the Peopleâs Commissariat for Foreign Trade, and recognised that it was âinadmissible to bring up at the Politbureau questions sharply affecting responsible workers (Comrade Bogdanov) without obtaining the necessary information beforehandâ (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).