The published collection is the first, most complete collection of documents of the General Command .. It is intended to show the activities of the General Command for the management of military operations of the armed forces. The collection includes all the most important operational documents of the General Command. It includes not only the directive itself, but also other policy documents: reports B. and . Lenin, the Soviet government, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, recordings of negotiations on the direct wire of the Commander-in-Chief with the commanders of the fronts and some front materials. Of great importance are the reports of the General Command, most of which have not previously been published or published in part. Records of negotiations are direct wire? one of the important and little-used documentary sources in the literature on the history of the civil war. During these negotiations, operational plans were discussed, orders were given by the Commander-in-Chief, sometimes not repeated in directives, the situation on the front lines was clarified and clarified, and so on. d. From front-line materials, the collection contains only reports on the plans for the largest operations, which are extremely necessary for a correct understanding of the activities of the General Command .. See. Documents on the history of the civil war in the USSR, t. I (M.) , 1941)