Lenin Telephone Message to Kharkov Petrovsky and Frunze

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