Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Lenin

Copy. Telegram. True Copy. (From files of outgoing papers of the Field Chancery No. 1 for 1919, part II) The Trotsky Papers 1917-1922, edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer, The Hague. 1964, Vol. 2., p. 247]

From: Orel

January 7, 1919. No. 114

To: Moscow - Chairman of the Council of Defence, Lenin.

Copied to: People’s Commissariat for Military Affairs, Sklyansky.

People’s Commissar of Transport Communications, Nevsky.

Head of Chancery for the Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Gotovitsky.

No Extraordinary Commissar of Railways has been up to now appointed for the Eastern Front. Cannot Ksandrov be given the appointment?

Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Trotsky