The first and second pages of Lenin's hanging order
Lenin's hanging order is a telegram from Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin ordering the suppression and execution of captured participants in the kulak revolt in the Penza Governorate. It was first called the "Hanging Order" by the U.S. Library of Congress.[1] The telegram was addressed to Vasily Kurayev (Penza Soviet chairman), Yevgenia Bosch (the chairwoman of Penza Governorate Party Committee) and Aleksandr Minkin (the chairman of Penza Governorate ispolkom) and other Penza communists, dated 11 August 1918.