after six weeks the soviet politburo passed a resolution for the elimination of the committee. most of its members, including bulgakov, were arrested. simultaneously, the press began attacking them. however, experienced in confronting the authorities bulgakov made sure that on 18 september 1921 the newspaper "communist labor" ran a refutation of the false accusations and published an excerpt from his letter to the editor. along with the majority of the members of pomgol, bulgakov was released and then exiled from the soviet union in february 1923.