To Comrade Kaganovich. Pay attention to the attached documents and do not let our communists torment Ehrenburg.

I. Stalin

Istoricheskiy arkhiv. 2001. No. 3. P. 51.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 710. L. 24.

Note: This refers to the following text by N.I. Bukharin: "To Comrade Stalin. July 20, 1935. Dear Koba. I am sending you a copy of part of a letter from Ehrenburg, which provides confidential information on the work of the international writers' Congress. At the end he complains bitterly and asks to be relieved of the burden of organizing writers, given the position in which, according to him, he has been placed. The letter, in my view, is of interest to you, which is why I am forwarding it."

During 1935–1936, Bukharin repeatedly appealed to Stalin on various matters, striving on the whole to prove his loyalty to the Party line and his renunciation of former oppositional views. On several of his letters, eloquent remarks by the addressee have been preserved. For example, on a letter of December 2, 1935, Stalin wrote: "An eccentric. St." On another letter, appearing later than February 10, 1936, in which Bukharin pleaded at length for understanding, Stalin inscribed on the first page: "A big child. I. St."