Telegram to Nadezhda Krupskaya, July 2, 1919

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To Ulyanova-Lenina

Kazan or present whereabouts of

the Government propaganda vessel

Krasnaya Zvezda


Am forwarding Pozner’s telegram. Please wire about your health and route you are following.[1]

Lenin

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

  1. At this time Krupskaya was on board the government propaganda vessel Krasnaya Zvezda as representative of the People’s Commissariat of Education. Propagandists and representatives of a number of People’s Commissariats were on board the vessel which sailed from Nizhny Novgorod to Perm, stopping at towns and villages, factories and factory settlements. Krupskaya kept a detailed diary of the voyage.
    The telegram from V. M. Pozner which Lenin mentions ran as follows: “The Provisional Executive Committee of the Union of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture has to inform you that the Second All-Russia Communist Conference opens on July 25, two days prior to the opening of the congress appointed for July 27 by a decision of the second session. The Executive Committee requests you to speak on ’The New Personnel in Education and Work Among the People’. Please inform us of your consent.”