Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Lenin

Copy. Secret Telegram. By direct line. True Copy. (File “Outgoing papers for 1919, from No. 1 to No. 500” of the Field Chancery of the train of the Chairman of the RVSR, page 36) The Trotsky Papers 1917-1922, edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer, The Hague. 1964, Vol. 2., p. 235]

From: Kursk

2/1 No. 36

To: Kremlin, Moscow – Lenin, Sverdlov.

In view of the need to ensure unity in the military organisation, the members of the Ukrainian Government are applying for the nomination of Comrade Podvoisky as Ukrainian Commissar for Military Affairs. I ask for a decision of the C.C. of the Party to this effect.

Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Trotsky