Lenin and Kamenev on the Moscow Printers Strike

Lev Kamenev, Draft of a Resolution Concerning the Printers’ Strike. April 28, 1919

 

Co-author Vladimir Lenin

Before April 28, 1919

1. Require the Moscow Cheka to carry out merciless arrests among the strikers and delegates, ignoring previous considerations.

2. Call Khalatov to the Council of People’s Commissars by nine o’clock.

L. Kamenev

3. Require Kamenev immediately to send for Red printers from Petersburg.

Source: Richard Pipes, ed., with the assistance of David Brandenberger, Unknown Lenin: from the Secret Archive (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 66.

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