from Ordhonizky to Stali and Lenin

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

Report on direct wire G. K. Ordzhonikidze to I. V. Stalin, V. I. Lenin, G. V. Chicherin

December 4, 1920

Moscow Kremlin 1 .

Hello Nadia 2 . Please convey the following to Stalin, Ilyich and Chicherin at once. Events in Armenia proceed without any complications. The Revolutionary Committee of Armenia is due to arrive [in] Erivan today. The population of Erivan enthusiastically greeted the proclamation of the Soviet power 3 . The entire army recognized the coup. Legrand insists on the introduction of Dro and Terteryan into the Revolutionary Committee. The Turks are very distrustful [of] the Armenian communists. The question of bringing Dro and Terteryan [to] the Revolutionary Committee will be decided upon the arrival of Kasyan in Erivan. It is possible that we will have to abandon the well-known solution 4 . We are already occupying Karaklis. On the 2nd of Khatisov signed a peace treaty with the Turks, I am giving you a copy now 5. From the message of Mdivani, which will also be transmitted immediately, it is clear to me that the Turks will climb Batum . Yesterday Alshibay came to see me, terribly alarmed, whom I reassured, although he hardly believed me. It is necessary to drive the Communist Armenians out of Moscow with might and main. Send Ter-Gabrielyan immediately. The Tiflis press states the failure of negotiations between Constantinople and Angora 7 . The legalization of the Communist Party in Angora is symptomatic.

Ordzhonikidze 8 .

RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. Op. 14. D. 33. L. 22-23. handwritten text; F. 2. On. 1. D. 16404. L. 1. Typewritten text.

Notes:

1 On December 2, 1920, Ordzhonikidze received a telegram from Legrand, Plenipotentiary of the RSFSR in Armenia, informing him of the declaration of Soviet power in Armenia. Legrand also reported: “... The security of the commanding staff of the army (Armenian - Comp.) is also guaranteed to the Dashnaks, [with] the exception of those directly responsible [for] the policy of the Ohanjanyan ministry. I issued an order [about] their arrest. The headquarters of our division is located [in] Delizhan. On behalf of the Russian Soviet government, I have announced: Russia recognizes unconditionally [in] the territory of the Soviet of Armenia the Erivan province, part of the Kars region, providing [in] military terms and the railroad line passing through Alexandropol to Erivan and Kazakh Karakis, Zangezur district, part of the Kazakh limit before agreement on August 10, and those parts of Tiflis, which were possessed by Armenia before the start of the Turkish offensive. The order [on] the release of the communists has been issued and is being carried out [in] execution. In case of hostile actions of the Turks, it is necessary to have sufficient military forces closer, is this taken into account [...] ”(RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. Op. 14. D. 33. L. 16).

2 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, on call.

3 of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia on the proclamation of Armenia as a socialist Soviet Republic was promulgated on November 29, 1920 (The Great October Socialist Revolution and the Victory of Soviet Power in Armenia, pp. 431-434).

4 See note 2 to document No. 109.

5 Peace treaty concluded in Alexandropol by the Dashnak government of Armenia with Turkey on December 2, 1920 (The Great October Socialist Revolution and the victory of Soviet power in Armenia, pp. 438-441).

6 In a telegram to Sheinman, Plenipotentiary of the RSFSR in Georgia, dated December 10, 1920, Chicherin wrote: “[...] the transfer of Batum into the hands of the Turks is unacceptable. We must not leave our line of friendly policy towards the Kemalists, while at the same time keeping them from actions that are undesirable for us [...]” (Documents of Foreign Policy of the USSR, vol. 3, p. 374).

7 In Ankara (Angora) in April 1920 a revolutionary government (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) was organized. In Istanbul (Constantinople near Ordzhonikidze) was the official government of Turkey.

8 Lenin's note on the note: "To the archive."