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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 186a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
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R. Cymbala
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10. I. 1919
Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd
From my talks with Ravich and Kalinin, and from Shadurskaya’s telegram I gather that nine-tenths of the top machinery of government in Petrograd are engaged in doing nothing. I advise you to think over and urgently carry out a reorganisation, by transferring tens, if not hundreds, of the best people to actual control of transport, with you yourself heading the actual control of the food trains. Otherwise there is no salvation.
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