Written: Written on July 7, 1918
Published:
Published on July 8 (June 25), 1918 in Pravda No. 139 and Izvestia No. 141.
Printed from the text written in an unknown band and signed by V. I. Lenin.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1976],
Moscow,
Volume 35,
page 341.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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To be transmitted to all volost, village and uyezd Soviets of Moscow Gubernia.[1]
The defeated bands of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries who revolted against Soviet power are scattering through the surrounding districts. The leaders of this whole adventure are fleeing. Take all steps to capture and detain those who had the insolence to rise against Soviet power. Detain all cars. Lower barriers over the highways everywhere. Concentrate near them armed detachments of the local workers and peasants. There is information that one armoured car, which the rebels possessed, has got out of the city. Take all steps to detain this armoured car.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
[1] Gubernia, uyezd, volost—Russian administrative-territorial units. The largest of these was the gubernia, which had its subdivisions in uyezds, which in turn were subdivided into volosts. This system continued under Soviet power until the introduction of the new system of administrative-territorial division in 1929–30.—Ed.
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