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First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
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Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 193b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
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R. Cymbala
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12. II. 1919
Shlyapnikov
Astrakhan
Your telegram about Baku affairs[1] received. I hope you understand the tremendous importance of the question and will take the most energetic steps to make use of the feeling among the Baku people for swift and decisive action. Guarantee safety for those who come over to us. Telegraph more details.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
[1] On February 6, 1919, Shlyapnikov reported to Lenin information he had received from Baku to the effect that the workers of Baku enterprises and the sailors were hostile towards the British occupationists, that the ships, on which there were still Russian sailors, were ready to go over to the side of the Soviets, and that the Baku workers would start an uprising to coincide with the Red Army attack.
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