Written: 3 January, 1918
First Published: 1929 in the magazine
Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 5. Publshished according
to the telegraph tape.
Source: Lenin’s Collected
Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972,
pp. 427
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov and George
Hanna, Edited by George Hanna
Transcription & HTML Markup: Charles
Farrell and David Walters
Online Version:
Lenin Internet Archive November, 2000
Lenin here. I have just received your special letter. Stalin is away and I have not yet been able to show it to him. I think your plan is worth discussing. Can its final implementation be somewhat deferred, and the final decision taken after a special Central Executive Committee meeting over here? I shall show the letter to Stalin as soon as he returns.
Lenin.
I should like to consult Stalin before replying to your question. A delegation of the Kharkov Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, which has assured me that the Kiev Rada is on its last legs, is leaving today to join you.
Lenin.
Stalin has just arrived, I shall discuss it with him, and will shortly let you know our joint reply.
Lenin.
Please inform Trotsky. Request arrange adjournment and return to Petrograd.
Lenin. Stalin.