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

  1. 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.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth