TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO G. I. PETROVSKY AND M. V. FRUNZE
Pyatakov has been strongly requesting my help in getting Sergei Syrtsov from Odessa as a secretary to Donbas. Pyatakov has accused the Ukrainian Communist Party C.C. of unwillingness to let him have Syrtsov only because of factional fears, since Syrtsov is said to be a Trotskyite. Pyatakov declares that both he and Syrtsov promise not to conduct any factional policies. I don’t know Syrtsov. Please collect all information and reply to me.
30/III.1921. Lenin
Lenin Collected Works, Volume 45, page 111
