 His knowledge of national movements in the East won him the trust of Stalin and other highly placed Party and government figures.Sultan-Galiev carried out many tasks on the personal orders of Stalin.In April 1919 he again was rushed to the Eastern Front to help shore up the morale of the Tatar 21st division at Malmyzh after Kolchak's spring offensive had forced the Red Army to abandon Izhevsk to the Whites.