Frunze to Stalin

Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.

Stalin Correspondences

M. V. Frunze — I. V. Stalin

December 10, 1924

T. Stalin. Tell me your opinion about this document 1 .

M. Fr[unze].

You need to find out the author of the wording "Trotsky as the leader of the Red Army" and punish him. This wording needs to be changed.

St[alin].

The wording needs to be changed. But I don't like the formula "the leader is the presidium of the Revolutionary Military Council." I think it would be better to speak as a leader - [about] the party. About the Leaders in the narrow army sense, do not talk, just acquaint the entire army with the biographies of the persons at the head of the army.

[Frunze].

RTSKHIDNI. F. 558. On. 1. D. 5254. L. 1. Autographs.

Notes:

one. We are talking about a memo handed over by Bubnov to Frunze for review. Its text: “[...] In the program of political studies with the Red Army during the current winter period, there is a conversation “Leader of the Red Army Comrade. Trotsky" (collection of orders and circulars PUR "a No. 36). The wording of this conversation should be changed, on the basis of a resolution of the meeting of chief officers, as follows: "The leader of the Red Army - the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR", the content of the conversation: "The Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the Presidium of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the biographies of the members of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR." Find a reasonably convenient form of substitution, making it as carefully as possible without causing unnecessary talk. In the upcoming manual for the program, the conversation is developed according to the proposed new version. Thus, the material for the conversation will be received by all political instructors. ZAM. BEGINNING PUR: (Landa) BEG. AGITPROPODEPARA: (Aleksinsky) "(RTSKHIDNI. F. 558. On. 1. D. 5254. L. 1).