from Stalin to 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

J. V. Stalin - V. I. Lenin

September 27, 1918

September 27 [November] 1918

Hello, dear Ilyich!

There is little time (everything is staggering along the front), I am writing straight to the point.

Things got to the point that in Tsaritsyn all stocks ran out in the warehouses, and Moscow has been sending nothing, absolutely nothing (neither a cartridge nor shells) for 2 weeks now. Some kind of criminal negligence, formal betrayal. If it drags on like this, we will certainly lose the war in the south .

Your Stalin 2 .

RTSKHIDNI. F. 558. On. 1. D. 5412. L. 2. Autograph.

Notes:

1 On the same day, Stalin and Voroshilov sent a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, where they set out in detail their views on the reasons for the failures of the Red Army on the Southern Front and measures to change the situation. At the end of the letter, complaining about the lack of military equipment, they gave a detailed list of everything needed (Stalin in Tsaritsyn. Collection of documents. Stalingrad, 1939. S. 50-51).

2 On the letterhead: “Russian Federative Soviet Republic. Military Council of the North Caucasian Military District. Tsaritsyn N-V.