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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume Forty-Two contains items written after the October Revolution, which were first published in the Complete Russian Edition of Lenin’s Collected Works or which were published in Lenin Miscellanies, magazines and newspapers. These documents form an important supplement to the works included in the various volumes of this edition.

The first group of documents dates to the period from November 1917 to July 1918—the period of continued development of the socialist revolution and consolidation of Soviet power. Mention should be made first of all of “Theses on the Tasks of the Party + the Present Situation”, the article “Plekhanov on Terror”, the “Draft Resolution for the CC, RSDLP(b) Concerning the Expulsion from the Party of S. A. Lozovsky”, the “Outline of a Programme of Economic Measures” and a number of chapters of the original version of the article “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government”. These deal with the tasks that faced the working class after the conquest of power, stress the necessity for strengthening the dictatorship of the proletariat and suppressing the resistance of the overthrown exploiting classes, and sharply criticise the Right-opportunist elements within the Party.

Several documents relate to Lenin’s fight to get Russia out of the war, to conclude the Brest peace treaty ("Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Bolshevik and Left S.R. Groups in the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, February 19, 1918", “Speech to the Lettish Riflemen, February 20, 1918” and others). The numerous decisions for the Council of People’s Commissars drafted by Lenin reflect the first steps of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government in the field of political, economic and cultural activities.

A large part of the materials relate to the period of foreign military intervention and the civil war, among them: notes on “The Tasks and Organisation of the Work of the Council of Defence”, “Notes at a Meeting of the Commission on Cartridges”, “Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on Sending Groups of Workers Out on Food Transportation Jobs”, “Draft Decision for the Council of Defence on the Mobilisation of Soviet Employees”, “Draft Decisions for the CC Politbureau on Measures to Fight Mamontov”, “Proposals on Military Questions”, “Decisions of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front” and Lenin’s speeches: “Speech to Ivanovo-Voznesensk Communist Workers Leaving for the Front, October 24, 1919", “Speech at the Eleventh Issue of Red Commanders of the First Moscow Machine-Gunners Training Courses, May 12, 1920", “Report on the Internal and External Position of the Republic at a Meeting of Activists of the Moscow Organisation of the RCP(b), October 9, 1920". These and many other documents strikingly illustrate the gigantic activities of the Central Committee and the Soviet Government, headed by Lenin, in organising the defeat of the interventionists and whiteguards.

A considerable part of the volume is made up of items and documents written after the war, when the problems of economic rehabilitation and socialist construction bulked large. Industry, agriculture, science and technology, public education, improvement of the machinery of state, the national question, foreign policy—all these problems were dealt with daily by Lenin, who directed the activities of the Party and the Government.

The items included in this volume contain important supplementary material showing how Lenin worked on the plan of socialist construction.

Of great significance are the chapters of the original version of “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government” (the end of Chapter IV, chapters V-IX and the beginning of Chapter X) which were first published in 1962. In these chapters Lenin sets forth in greater detail than in the final text a number of questions relating to the task of starting construction of a new society and reveals the importance of solving economic problems and the need for proper management of the national economy during the period of transition from capitalism to socialism. In interviews given to Lincoln Eyre, correspondent of the American newspaper The World, and to the correspondent of the Japanese newspaper Osaka Asahi and in his “Notes on Electrification” Lenin characterises the role of electrification in building the economic foundation of socialism and developing the productive forces. Questions of the New Economic Policy are dealt with in the “Reply to the Debate on the Report on Concessions” at the meeting of the Communist group of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions on April 11, 1921, in speeches made at the Tenth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(b) during the debate on the resolution on questions of the New Economic Policy, and in a letter “To the Russian Colony in North America”.

Consistent application of democratic centralism in running the economy, scientific planning, rational and efficient management, proper organisation of labour, the introduction of cost accounting, the running of enterprises on a paying basis, and the use of moral and material incentives for developing production were considered by Lenin to be the most vital principles and methods of socialist management. Mention can here be made of such documents as the “Speech at a Meeting of the Presidium of the SEC, April 1, 1918", “Comments on the Draft 'Regulations for the Management of the Nationalised Enterprises"', “Salaries for Specialists”, “Addendum to the Draft Regulations on Subbotniks”, “Draft of the Main Point of the CLD Decision on the General Planning Commission”, “Plan of an Article 'Commercial Organisation' ", “Motion to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Bonuses for Enterprises” and others.

Defining the tasks of economic construction in his “Plan of a Speech at the Trade Union Congress”, Lenin wrote: "Work discipline, higher labour productivity, work organisation, increased output, relentless fight against slipshod work and red tape. By this sign shall ye conquer” (p. 308).

Materials such as: “Addendum to the Draft Decision for the CPC 'On the Distribution of Agricultural Machines' ", “Draft Decision for the CLD on Fowler Ploughs”, the draft decision on “Measures for Improving the Organisation of State Farms” and others show Lenin’s concern for the revival of agriculture, for the supply of the peasants with machines, for the development of the state farms, for support of the co-operatives on the part of the state and for the creation of conditions for the socialist transformation of the village.

A number of materials deal with questions of cultural development: the draft decision for the CPC on “Library Organisation”, “Instructions for Compiling a Reading Book for Workers and Peasants”, “Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Chief Committee for Political Education”, “Rough Draft of a Resolution on Proletarian Culture”, “Addendum to the Draft Decision for the CPC on an Obligatory Science Minimum in the Higher Schools”, “Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on the Reorganisation of the People’s Commissariat for Education”, “Directives on the Film Business”. These and other documents contain important propositions regarding the substance and ways of effecting a cultural revolution, the communist education of the working people, the political enlightenment of the masses.

Of exceptionally great significance. is the letter “On the Establishment of the U.S.S.R.” in which Lenin put forward the idea of creating a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a single multinational socialist state based on a voluntary association of equal and sovereign Soviet Republics. Questions concerning the national policy of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government are dealt with also in the “Notes at a Meeting of Delegates to the Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East”, “Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the RCP(b) in Turkestan”, “Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the RCP(b) in Localities Inhabited by Eastern Peoples” and other items, in which Lenin urges the need for unity and fraternal co-operation among all the nationalities of the Soviet land and for waging a vigorous fight against chauvinism and nationalism.

The speech winding up the debate on the report on concessions at the meeting of the RCP(b) group at the Eighth Congress of Soviets contains Lenin’s important thesis on Soviet patriotism: “The patriotism of a person who is prepared to go hungry for three years rather than surrender Russia to foreigners is genuine patriotism, without which we could not hold out for three years. Without this patriotism we would not have succeeded in defending the Soviet Republic, in doing away with private property.... This is the finest revolutionary patriotism” (p. 245).

In his note “The Democratism and Socialist Nature of Soviet Power” and his “Speech at a Meeting in Presnya District, July 26, 1918", Lenin characterises the Soviets and reveals the genuine democratism of the Soviet Constitution.

Many documents reflect Lenin’s efforts to improve the working of the machinery of state, and strengthen state, Party and public control: “Proposals for the Distribution of Functions Between the Deputy Chairmen of the CPC and the CLD", “Proposals Concerning the Work Routine of the Deputy Chairmen and the Chairman of the C. P.C.", “Letter to L. B. Kamenev, A. I. Rykov and A. D. Tsyurupa on the Distribution of Work Between the Deputy Chairmen of the CPC and the CLD", "Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) Directives on a Workers' Inspection”, “Materials to the Article 'How We Should Reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection"', etc. A number of documents are devoted to the strengthening of socialist Legality: “Rough Theses of a Decision on the Strict Observance of the Laws”, “Proposals Concerning the Work of the Vecheka”, “Speech at the Fourth Conference of Gubernia Extraordinary Commissions, February 6. 1920” and others.

Lenin regarded the Communist Party as the guiding and directing force of Soviet society. He never relaxed his efforts to strengthen the ideological and organisational unity of the Party, he urged the need for doing everything to develop inner-Party democracy, to rigidly adhere to the principle of collective leadership and to strengthen the Party’s ties with the masses. These questions are dealt with in many documents included in this volume: “Speech on the Immediate Tasks of Party Development” at the Ninth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(b), draft resolution and proposals for the resolution on this question, speech to the RCP(b) group at the Eighth Congress of Soviets during the debate on the report of the All-Russia CEC and CPC concerning home and foreign policies, “Speech at a Meeting of Moscow Party Activists, February 24, 1921", “Draft of a Letter of the CC, RCP(b) on the Attitude to Non-Party Workers”, “Outline of a Speech at a Meeting of Supporters of the 'Platform of Ten"'—delegates to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b), “Remarks Concerning the Work Plan of the CC, RCP(b)".

Lenin’s draft resolution for the Politbureau of the CC concerning Maxim Gorky’s articles in the magazine Communist International is a striking illustration of his high-principled attitude, his intolerance towards the cult of personality.

Of great importance is the series of documents dealing with the Soviet state’s foreign policy: the interviews with foreign correspondents, the “Draft Directives to the Deputy Chairman and All Members of the Genoa Delegation”, “Draft Directives of the CC, RCP(b) for the Soviet Delegation to the Genoa Conference”, “Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the Soviet Delegation at Genoa”, “Amendments and Remarks to the Draft Declaration of the Soviet Delegation at the Genoa Conference” and others, which formulate the fundamental principles of the Soviet Republic’s foreign policy and the aims and methods of Soviet diplomacy.

These documents show how consistently the Soviet Government, headed by Lenin, pursued its policy of peace and establishment of business relations with the capitalist countries. In his interview given to an American correspondent, Lenin said: “I know of no reason why a socialistic commonwealth like ours cannot do business indefinitely with capitalistic countries” (p. 177). At the same time the Soviet Government strongly rebuffed all attempts of the imperialist powers to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Republic or to impose upon it fettering terms of an economic agreement. Lenin said: “We have reiterated and reiterated our desire for peace.... But we do not propose to be strangled to death for the sake of peace” (ibid.).

Notable items in this volume are the documents which reveal the friendly fraternal relations between the Soviet State and the countries where the people had come to power. This volume contains the draft decisions for the CPC concerning a treaty with the Socialist Workers' Republic of Finland. This was the first treaty in history to be signed between two socialist republics, and represented a new type of international relations between equal sovereign states. The text of Lenin’s “Talk With a Delegation of the Mongolian People’s Republic” contains important guidelines on the paths of development towards socialism for countries with a pre-capitalist social system, and on the specific features of the tactics which the revolutionary parties in these countries should adopt.

The writings included in this volume are a valuable supplement to the well-known works of Lenin dealing with the international labour and communist movements. Mention should first of all be made of Lenin’s letter to Chicherin (at the end of December 1918) outlining the basic ideological platform and organisational principles of the Communist International. Of considerable interest are the materials relating to the Second Congress of the Comintern—the “Plan of a Resolution Concerning the Meaning of the Concept 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' and the Fight Against the 'Fashionable' Distortion of This Slogan”, “Remarks on the Report of A. Sultan-Zade Concerning the Prospects of a Social Revolution in the East” and others. A number of documents deal with the Third Congress of the Comintern and show what a tremendous job Lenin performed in preparing the basic decisions of the Congress and guiding its proceedings. These include: “Letter to 0. W. Kuusinen and Remarks on the Draft 'Theses on the Organisational Activities of the Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of Their Work"', “Remarks on the Draft Theses on Tactics for the Third Congress of the Communist International”, “Speeches at a Meeting of Members of the German, Polish, Czechoslovak, Hungarian and Italian Delegations”.

These documents reflect the irreconcilable struggle which Lenin carried on against Right-wing opportunism, reformism and revisionism, and at the same time against Leftism, adventurism, dogmatism and sectarianism in the international communist movement. They contain very important guidelines on questions of the strategy and tactics of the international communist movement. The Communist Parties, Lenin emphasised, should focus their attention on the task of winning over the majority of the working class, the bulk of the working masses, and prepare them for the socialist revolution. In a number of documents—"Draft Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tactics of the United Front”, “Letter to Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with Remarks to the Draft Resolution for the First Extended Plenary Meeting of the Comintern Executive on Participation in a Conference of the Three Internationals”, “Proposal to the Draft Resolution for the Eleventh Party Congress on the Report of the RCP(b) Delegation in the Comintern"—Lenin argues the case for the tactics of a united front, the adoption of a united action by the working class.

The Appendix to the volume contains questionnaires filled in by Lenin in the capacity of delegate to Communist Party congresses and conferences, in the course of reregistration of members of the Moscow organisation of the RCP and under the All-Russia census of the RCP members.

Of considerable interest are the records of Lenin’s official orders and instructions, reception of visitors and other facts entered in the Journal of Lenin’s Duty Secretaries. This document reveals how manfully Lenin fought his illness, giving all his strength to the cause of the Party, the cause of the working class.

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC of the CPSU

 

1917

Speech at a Meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars November 3 (16), 1917	35
Addenda to the Draft Decree on the Requisition of Articles of Warm Clothing for the Soldiers at the Front	35
Interview Given to Gregori Yarros, Correspondent of the Associated Press Agency November 15 (28), 1917	36
The Salaries of High-Ranking Office Employees and Officials Draft Decree for the CPC	37
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Question of the War Ministry	38
Theses for a Law on the Confiscation of Apartment and Tenement Houses	39
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Question of Following a Socialist Policy in the Economic Field	40
Outline of a Programme of Economic Measures	40
Demonstration Slogans	41
Liability for Unfounded Accusations Draft Resolution for the CC, RSDLP(b)	41
The Conversion of Munition Works to Economically Useful Work (November 29 , 1917) Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars	42
Theses on the Tasks of the Party + the Present Situation	43
Answers to Questions Put by a Workers’ Delegation of Alexandro-Grushevsky District	44
Draft Decision for the CPC on Staff Salaries in Government Offices	45
The Organisation of a Commission of Practitioners Draft Decision for the CPC	45
Instructions on the Procedure for Tabling Questions in the CPC	46
Draft Decision for CPC on the Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin	46
Plekhanov on Terror	47
Draft Resolution for the CC, RSDLP(b) Concerning the Expulsion from the Party of S. A. Lozovsky	49
Decision of the CPC on the Fight Against Kaledin 1. Decision of the CPC 2. Addendum to the Decision of the CPC	51

1918

Rates of Pay for High-Ranking Officials Draft Decision for the CPC	52
Measures for Improving the Food Situation Draft Decision for the CPC	52
Inquiry of the CPC to the CC of the Left S.R. Party	53
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Order of Subordination of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets	54
On Salaries Draft Decision for the CPC	54
Draft Decisions for the CPC on the Organisation of Food Supply	55
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Activities of the Committee of Inquiry Under the Petrograd Soviet	55
The Conversion of Munition Works to Economically Useful Work (January 23, 1918) Draft Decision for the CPC	56
Addendum to the Draft of the “Fundamental Law on the Socialisation of the Land”	56
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Institution of an All-Russia Inter-Departmental Extraordinary Commission for Guarding the Railways	57
Proposals on Measures to Improve the Food Situation in Petrograd	57
Decision of the CPC concerning the Employment of Saboteurs	58
Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Bolshevik and Left S.R. Groups in the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. February 19, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report.	58
Speech to the Lettish Riflemen. February 20, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report	59
Telephone Message to the Executive Commission of the Petrograd Committee and to All District Committees of the Bolshevik Party	59
Decision of the CPC on the Acceptance of the German Peace Terms	60
Treaty with the Finnish Socialist Workers’ Republic 1. Draft Decision of the CPC 2. Directive of the CPC, to the Russo-Finnish Conciliation Board 3. Draft Decision for the CPC	61
Addendum to the Draft Decision for the CPC Concerning the Activities of the Committee of Inquiry Under the Petrograd Soviet	62
Speeches at the Meeting of the CPC. March 4, 1918	63
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Setting Up of a Water Transport Management Board	66
Interview with Arthur Ransome, Correspondent of the Daily News	67
Re Draft Decree Concerning the Establishment of State Control Over All Forms of Insurance	68
Original Version of the Article “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government” Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X	68
The State of Inland Water Transport Draft Decision for the CPC	85
Draft Decision for the CPC on Control of SEC Expenditure	85
Speech at a Meeting of the Presidium of the SEC April 1, 1918	86
Addenda to the Draft Decree on the Procedure for Sending Commissars Out to the Provinces	87
Speech at a Joint Meeting of Representatives of The All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, The Central Committee of the Metalworkers’ Union and The Supreme Economic Council. April 11, 1918 From a Newspaper Report	88
To the Presiding Committee of the First Congress of Soviets of the Don Republic	88
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Registration of Shares, Bonds and Other Interest-Bearing Securities	89
Decision of the CPC on the Financing of Sugar-Beet Sowing Campaign	89
Draft Decree on the Institution of an All-Russia Evacuation Commission	90
Addendum to the Draft Decree for the CPC on Supplying Agriculture with Implements and Metals	91
Addendum to the Draft Decree for the CPC on a Department for Organising the Cultivated Area	91
Draft Decision for the Preliminary Conference on the Leadership of the Commissariat for Agriculture	92
Addendum to the Decree on the Food Dictatorship	92
Mobilisation of the Workers to Combat Famine	93
Draft Decision for the CPC on Fuel	93
Draft Decision for the CPC on Motor Transport	93
Draft Decision for the CPC on Private Purveyance of Food	94
Measures to Combat Famine	94
Rough Draft of an Agreement with the SEC and the Commissariat for Trade and Industry on the Conditions of Barter Between Town and Country	95
Comments on the Draft “Regulations for the Management of the Nationalised Enterprises”	96
Library Organisation Draft Decision for the CPC	96
Re Draft Decree on the Organisation and Supply of the Village Poor	97
Re Draft Decision for the CPC on the Composition of the Committee of Public Works	98
Rehabilitation of Railway Transport Draft Decision for the CPC	98
Draft Decision for the CPC on Advancing Money to Centrotextil	99
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Financing of the Chief Committee for the Tanning Industry	99
The Democratism and Socialist Nature of Soviet Power	100
Interview Given to the Correspondent of Folkets Dagblad PolitikenJuly 1, 1918	101
Draft Decision for the CPC on Supplying the Peasants with Agricultural Machines	103
Draft Decision for the CPC on Non-Fulfilment of the “Decree on Monuments of the Republic”	103
Rough Draft of Article 20, Section 2 of the Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R	104
Speech at a Meeting in Presnya District July 26, 1918	104
Draft Decision for the CPC on Potato Prices	106
Confiscation of Seeds from the Kulaks by the Poor Peasants’ Committees	107
Re the Decree on the Imposition of a Tax In Kind on Farmers 1. Main Provisions of the Decree 2. Remarks on the Draft Decree	107
Re Decision of the CPC Allocating Funds for the Upkeep of the Poor Peasants’ Committees	109
Re Decision of the CPC on Logging	109
Rough Theses of a Decision on the Strict Observance of the Laws	110
Draft Decision for the CPC on Children’s Homes	111
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Organisation of Supply for the Population	111
The Tasks and Organisation of the Work of the Council of Defence	112
Draft Decision for the Defence Council’s Fuel Commission	114
Proposals Concerning the Work of the Vecheka	115
Rough Draft Proposals for Intensifying and Increasing Food Purveyance	115
Re Draft “Regulations on the Organisation of a Workers’ Food Inspection” 1. Draft Decision of the CPC 2. Remarks on the Draft “Regulations”	116
Notes at a Meeting of the Commission on Cartridges	117
Re Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on an All-Russia Congress of Bank Employees	118
Proposals on the Question of Financing Centrotextil	118
To G. V. Chicherin	119
Instructions for Compiling a Reading Book for Workers and Peasants	122

1919

Notes on Help to Kharkov	122
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Co-Operatives	123
The State of Library Service Draft Decision for the CPC	123
A Concession on the Great Northern Railway Draft Decision for the CPC	124
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Question of Allotting Farms to Industrial Enterprises	125
Re Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on the Food Surplus-Appropriation System in the Ukraine	125
On the Appeal of the German Independents	126
Draft Decision for the Council of Defence on Regulating Relations Between the Vecheka, the Railway Cheka and the Commissariat for Railways and a Letter to the Members of the Council of Defence	127
Speech at Agitators’ Courses of the Mother and Child Protection Department of the People’s Commissariat for Social Security March 8, 1919	129
Rough Draft for a CPC Decision on the Printing Industry Department of SEC	129
Notes on Co-Operation	130
Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on Sending Groups of Workers Out on Food Transportation Jobs	131
Draft Decision for the Council of Defence on Supplying Breadstuffs to the Railwaymen	131
On the Question of Relations with the Middle Peasants	132
Draft Resolution on the Report on the Domestic and Foreign Situation of the Soviet Republic at the Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies April 3, 1919	133
Motion to Endorse the Draft Resolution of the CC, RCP(b) Containing Directives for the CC of the CP(b) of the Ukraine	135
Re Decision of the Council of Defence on Stepping Up Work in the Field of Military Defence	135
Postscript to the Appeal to Hungarian Internationalists	135
Draft Decision for the CPC’s Economic Commission on Alleviating the Position of the Workers	136
Salaries for Specialists Draft Decision May 23, 1919	136
Draft Decision for the Council of Defence on the Mobilisation of Soviet Employees Draft Decision May 23, 1919	137
Decree of the Council of Workers’ and Peasants’ Defence on Calling Up for Military Service Trade, Industrial and Transport Workers and Other Employees	138
Order to the CPC Secretariat	139
Directives to the Commissariat for Agriculture Re Modification of Instructions	140
Draft Decisions for the CC Politbureau on Measures to Fight Mamontov	141
Introduction of One-Man Management in Lieu of Board Management in Centrotextil Draft Decision for the Council of People's Commissars	143
Note to G. V. Chicherin and Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Relations with the Entente Countries	144
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Conflict Between the SEC and the Commissariat for State Control	144
Suggestions on the Question of Co-Operation	145
Interview with Mohammad Wali-Khan Ambassador Extraordinary of Afghanistan. October 14, 1919 Newspaper Report	146
Speech to Ivanovo-Voznesensk Communist Workers Leaving for the Front. October 24, 1919 Reporter's Notes	147
Speech to Adult-Education Course Students Leaving for the Front. October 28, 1919	147
Motion on the Question of a Single Forestry Body	148
Draft Decision for the CPC on Potato Purchases	149
Notes at a Meeting of Delegates to the Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East	150
Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum	150
Re Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum on the Composition of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee	151
On Improving the Management of Railway Transport Draft Decision for the Council of People's Commissars	151
Remarks on Draft Regulations Concerning the Bureau of the RCP(b) Group at the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions	152
The Work of the Food Supply Agencies Draft Resolution	152
Rough Draft for the CPC Decision on Moscow’s Food Supply	154
Draft CPC Decision on Grain Consignments to Moscow by Through Trains	154
Letter to P. I. Popov (Re Consumption by the Population of the R.S.F.S. Before and After the October Revolution)	155
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Question of Supplying the Workers with Clothes and Footwear	157
Draft Decision for the CPC on Instructions Concerning Purveyance of Raw Materials	157

1920

Re Transport Department of Vecheka Draft Decision for the Council of Defence	158
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (January, not before 17, 1920)	158
Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) in Connection with the Entente’s Attempt to Start Trade Relations with Russia through the Russian Co-Operatives	159
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Commander-in-Chief’s Protest Concerning the Order to the Commander of the Turkestan Front	159
Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) Directives on a Workers’ Inspection	160
Directions Concerning the Work of the Propaganda-Instructor Trains and Steamers	160
Draft Decision for the CPC on Unloading Potatoes and Snow Clearing of Moscow's Streets and Railway Tracks	162
Notes Concerning the Draft Regulations on Bonuses for Workers and Office Employees	163
Speech at a Conference of Chairmen of Gubernia and Uyezd Executive Committees February 1, 1920	163
Draft Decisions for the Council of Defence on the State of Transport	164
Postscript to Decisions of the Council of Defence on the State of Transport	165
Privileges for Locomotive Repair Workers Draft Decision for the CPC	166
Speech at the Fourth Conference of Gubernia Extraordinary Commissions February 6, 1920	166
Draft Resolution on the Ukrainian Borotbist Party	174
Interview with Lincoln Eyre, Correspondent of the American Newspaper The World Allies Playing “Chess Game” United States Oppresses Socialists Europe Dependent on Russia World Needs Russian Goods Internal Situation Hopeful Scores Socialist Leaders	175
Remarks on the Resolution of the Executive of the Communist International on the Borotbists	180
Draft Decision for the CPC on Stocks of Commodities	181
Remarks on Trotsky’s Draft Theses “The Immediate Tasks of Economic Development”	181
The Prosecution of Minors Notes and Amendments to the Draft Decree	182
Measures for Improving the Organisation of State Farms Draft Decision for the CPC	183
Resolutions of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) Concerning Breach of Party Discipline by Members of the ACCTU Party Group	184
Preface to the English Edition of the Pamphlet The Proletarian Revolution and Kautsky the Renegade	185
Addendum to the Draft Regulations on Subbotniks I. Aims and Purpose of Subbotniks	187
To Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	187
Notes Concerning the Decree on Work Rations	188
Speech at the Stone-Laying Ceremony for a Monument to Karl Marx. May 1, 1920 Newspaper Report	189
Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Zagorsky Workers’ Palace. May 1, 1920 Newspaper Report	190
Speech at the Eleventh Issue of Red Commanders of the First Moscow Machine-Gunners Training Courses. May 12, 1920 Chronicler's Record	190
Draft Decision for the Council of People’s Commissars on the Purveyance of Raw Materials	191
Remarks on the Draft Decree on Measures for Proper Distribution of Housing Among the Working Population	192
Rough Draft Decision for the CPC on Grain Resources	192
Interview with M. Nakahira, Correspondent of the Japanese Newspaper Osaka Asahi	193
Interview with K. Fusse, Correspondent of the Japanese Newspapers Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi-Nichi	194
Decision Imposing a Penalty on E. Y. Vever, Manager of “Gorki” Sanatorium	196
Speech at a Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. June 19, 1920 Newspaper Report	197
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the RCP(b) in Turkestan	198
Material for the Second Congress of the Communist International 1. Plan of a Resolution Concerning the Meaning of the Concept “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” and the Fight Against the “Fashionable” Distortion of this Slogan 2. Re Jack Tanner's Speech at the Second Congress of the Comintern 3. Remarks on the Report of a. Sultan-Zade Concerning the Prospects of a Social Revolution in the East 4. Notes for the Committee on the National and Colonial Questions	199
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on the Conflict Between the Petrograd Commune and the Petrograd Soviet	203
Answers to Questions by A. M. Krasnoshchokov, Foreign Minister of the Far-Eastern Republic	204
Speech at a Stone-Laying Ceremony for a Monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg Held in Petrograd, July 19, 1920 Newspaper Report	204
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Maxim Gorky’s Articles in the Journal The Communist International	205
Proposals on Military Questions	205
Decisions of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front	206
The Ninth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(b) September 22-25, 1920 1. Speech on the Immediate Tasks of Party Development. September 24 2. Draft Resolution on the Immediate Tasks of Party Development 3. Proposals for the Resolution on the Immediate Tasks of Party Development	207
Report on the Internal and External Position of the Republic at a Meeting of Activists of the Moscow Organisation of the RCP(b) October 9, 1920	214
Rough Draft of a Resolution on Proletarian Culture	217
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the RCP(b) in Localities Inhabited by Eastern Peoples	218
Notes on the Immediate Tasks of the Party	219
Draft Decision for the Council of Labour and Defence on the Question of Restoration of the Baltic Fleet	220
Draft Decision for the Council of People’s Commissars on the Work and Food Rations for Soviet Employees	220
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (October 26, 1920)	221
Establishing Contacts Between the Economic Commissariats 1. Draft Decision for the Council of People's Commissars 2. Rough Draft Proposals	222
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Chief Committee for Political Education	223
A Letter to Members of the CC, RCP(b)	224
Speech at an Anniversary Plenary Meeting of the Sokolniki District Soviet Held Jointly with Representatives of the Factory Committees and Industrial Managements of Moscow November 7, 1920	225
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on Proletcult	226
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b)	227
Draft Decision for the CPC on Concessions	227
Draft Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	228
Re Theses of a Report at the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets on Improving the Activities of the Soviet Authorities in Combating Bureaucratism	229
Draft Decision for the Politbureau (On Chicherin’s Motion that Krasin Be Temporarily Recalled and Krasin’s Invited Opinion)	229
Draft Decision for the CPC on Direct Taxes	230
Draft Decision for the Economic Commission of the CPC	230
Re the Drafting of a Decree on Measures for Consolidating and Developing Peasant Farming Notes to the Commission Members	231
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Trade Agreement with Britain	232
Reply to the Debate on Concessions at a Meeting of Activists of the Moscow Organisation of the RCP(b) December 6, 1920	232
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on the Reorganisation of the People’s Commissariat for Education	237
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on Production Propaganda	238
Addenda to Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum Concerning the Organisation of a Special Production Organ	238
The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets 1. Reply to the Debate on the Report on Concessions Delivered to the RCP(b) Group at the Eighth Congress of Soviets, December 21 2. Speech to the RCP(b) Group at the Eighth Congress of Soviets During the Debate on the Report of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars Concerning Home and Foreign Policies, December 22 3. Speech on Addenda to the Bill of the CPC “On Measures to Consolidate and Develop Peasant Farming” Delivered to the RCP Group of the Eighth Congress of Soviets, December 27 4. Reply to Questions at the Meeting of the RCP Group of the Eighth Congress of Soviets, December 27	239
To N. N. Krestinsky for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	267

1921

Draft Resolution for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture	268
Draft Resolution for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on Georgia	268
Draft Resolution for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Letter of Tsektran Officials	269
Rough Draft Resolution for the CPC on Oil Concessions	269
Draft Resolution for the CPC on Checking Fulfilment by the People’s Commissariats of the Decisions and Assignments of the CLD and the CPC	270
Amendments and Addenda to the Decision of the CLD on Coping with the Fuel Crisis	270
Draft Decision for the CPC on the Import Plan	271
Draft of the Main Point of the CLD Decision on the General Planning Commission	271
Speech at a Meeting of Moscow Party Activists	272
Notes on the Question of Mobilising Raw Material Resources	275
Decision of the Council of Labour and Defence on Improving the Supply of the Workers	277
Plan of a Letter to the Baku Comrades	277
Notes on Electrification	280
Addendum to the Draft Decision for the CPC on an Obligatory Science Minimum in the Higher Schools	281
The Tenth Congress of the RCP(b) March 8-16, 1921	281
Motion at the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) Concerning the Draft Decision for the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on the Abolition of Monetary Taxes	284
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Purveyance in Tambov Gubernia	284
Meeting of the Communist Group of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions [supplementary notes]	285
Applications for Foreign Trade Orders	297
Draft Decision for the Council of Labour and Defence on “Algemba”	297
Addendum to the Draft Decision for the CPC “On the Distribution of Agricultural Machines”	298
Draft of a Letter of the CC, RCP(b) on the Attitude to Non-Party Workers	298
Speech at a Meeting of Communists and Candidate Members of the RCP(b) of the Kremlin Area. May 9, 1921	299
Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) (May 9, or 10, 1921)	300
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Measures for Achieving Concentration of Production	301
Plan of a Speech at a Meeting of the Communist Group of the Fourth All-Russia Congress of Trade Unions	302
Proposals to the Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum on Clause 13 of the Party Programme	302
Draft Decision for the CLD on Local Economic Conferences, on Reporting and on Complying with the Instructions of the CLD	303
Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) (May 22, 1921)	305
Remarks Concerning the Work Plan of the CC, RCP(b)	306
Plan of a Speech at the Trade Union Congress	307
To the Miner Comrades of the Petrovskoye Industrial Group	308
Tenth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(b)	309
To All People’s Commissars and to the Chief of the Central Statistical Board	313
Brief Monthly Extracts from Reports	314
Proposals on a Check-Up and Purge of the RCP(b) Membership	315
The Third Congress of the Communist International [supplemental]	316
Addenda to the Draft Decision for the CPC on Collective Pay for Employees of State Institutions	329
Motion to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Bonuses for Enterprises	329
Notes on Measures for Combating Famine and Stepping Up Economic Work	330
Re Draft Decision for the CPC on the Organisation of Commodity Exchange by Centrosoyuz	332
Motion for the CC, RCP(b) (July 28, 1921)	332
Proposals to F. E. Dzerzhinsky’s Conclusions on the State of Transport	333
Letter to G. Y. Zinoviev and Instructions to the Secretary	333
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on an Inspection of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade	336
Motion to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Bringing Ungern to Trial	336
A Note to E. Varga and Theses on the Organisation of an Information Institute on Questions of the International Labour Movement	337
To E. Varga	339
Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Keeping a Record of Workers’ Donations in Europe	340
A Note to V. M. Molotov and a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Noulens’ Note	340
Addendum to the Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Directives to the People’s Commissariat for Food	341
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Spendings from the Gold Fund	342
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Free Sale of Books from Moscow Warehouse Stocks	342
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (September 14, 1921)	343
A Note to V. M. Molotov with a Motion for the CC, RCP(b)	343
A Letter to V. V. Kuibyshev and a Draft Engagement for Workers Going to Russia from America	344
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Question of the Far-Eastern Republic	345
Re Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum (October 8, 1921)	346
Draft Directives for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Allotment of Lands for Sugar-Beet Cultivation in the Ukraine	346
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Social Insurance	347
Notes on Yugostal	347
A Note to V. M. Molotov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Question of an Agreement with the Rutgers Group	348
A Letter to the Politbureau Members with a Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) and the Council of Labour and Defence on the Question of Rutgers’ Proposals	350
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Assigning A. G. Shlyapnikov to Food Supply Work	350
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (October 15, 1921)	351
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Setting Up of a Single Commission on Concessions	351
A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on the Question of an Agreement with the Rutgers Group	352
Proposals to the Text of the Draft Agreement with the A.R.A. on the Organisation of Food Parcels to Russia	353
A Letter to the Polish Communists	354
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b), October 20, 1921	355
Draft Decision for CLD on Fowler Ploughs	356
Decision of the CLD on the Question of Reports and Diagrams for the CLD	356
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Management of the Cotton Industry	357
Plan of an Article “Commercial Organisation”	357
Draft Decisions for the CPC on the Financial Plan and Plan of Emission for 1922	359
Talk with a Delegation of the Mongolian People’s Republic	360
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (November 8, 1921)	361
A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	362
A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Food Supply Work in the Ukraine	362
Re Draft Decree “On Penalties for False Denunciations”	363
Remarks on the Draft Decree “On the Introduction of Payment for Newspapers”	363
A Note to V. M. Molotov with a Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	364
A Letter to A. D. Tsyurupa with a Draft Resolution for the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and a Note to the Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	365
Rough Draft of a Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Vecheka	366
Draft Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Tactics of the United Front	367
Draft Decision of the CLD on the Commission for the Utilisation of Material Resources	367
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) (December 5, 1921)	368
Remarks to the Theses on a United Front	368
Letter to the Propaganda and Action Council of the Peoples of the East	369
Comments on the Draft Resolution for the Eleventh Conference of the RCP(b) on the Party Purge	369
Speeches at a Meeting of Non-Party Delegates to the Ninth All-Russia Congress of Soviets	370
Draft Theses on the Role and Functions of the Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy	374

1922

Memo to V. M. Molotov for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with Draft Decisions	386
Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Allocation of Funds to the Nizhni-Novgorod Radio Laboratory	387
Directives on the Film Business	388
Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on M. I. Kalinin’s Trip to the Ukraine	389
Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	390
Draft Directives to the Deputy Chairman and All Members of the Genoa Delegation	390
Letter to N. I. Bukharin and G. Y. Zinoviev	393
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) in Connection with the Genoa Conference	394
On the Publication of a Telegram Reporting the Pamphlet by Parvus	395
Draft Directives of the CC, RCP(b) for the Soviet Delegation to the Genoa Conference	396
Memo to V. M. Molotov with a Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	398
Marks on N. L. Meshcheryakov’s Letter and a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	399
Letter to Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with Remarks to the Draft Resolution for the First Extended Plenary Meeting of the Comintern Executive on Participation in a Conference of the Three Internationals	400
Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) on the Tasks of the Soviet Delegation at Genoa	401
Memo to V. M. Molotov for Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with a Draft Decision on the Note to Italy	404
Amendments and Remarks to the Draft Regulations on the Narrow CPC	405
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Swedish Loan	405
Letter to Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with Proposals on the Draft Directives of the Comintern Executive for the Comintern Delegation to the Conference of the Three Internationals	406
Letter to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with a Draft of Directives to Comrades Travelling Abroad	407
Letter to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)	408
Note to N. P. Gorbunov and Proposals on the Question of the Co-Operatives	409
Amendments and Remarks to the Draft Declaration of the Soviet Delegation at the Genoa Conference	410
Eleventh Congress of the RCP(b) March 27—April 2, 1922 [Notes to the Main Report]	411
Draft Decision for the Plenum of the CC, RCP(b) on Organising the Work of the Secretariat	413
Notes to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with Draft Decisions	413
Remarks and Proposals to the Draft Decision for the Comintern Executive Following the Conference of the Three Internationals	415
Interview with the Correspondent of The New York Herald	417
Decision of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Publication of the Works of G. V. Plekhanov	417
Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on Presentation to the CC of Summarised Information Concerning the Tax In Kind	418
Note to J. V. Stalin with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Question of the Foreign Trade Monopoly	418
Addendum to the Draft Preamble to the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and a Letter to D. I. Kursky	419
Letter to the Secretariat of the CC, RCP(b) on the Question of Reducing the Red Army	420
Letter to J. V. Stalin for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with a Draft Decision on the Composition of the All-Russia CEC	420
To the First Congress of Working Women of Transcaucasia	421
On the Establishment of the USSR Letter to L. B. Kamenev for Members of the Politbureau	421
To the Congress of Textile Workers	423
Addenda to the Terms of the Agreement with L. Urquhart	424
Theses on the Co-Operative Bank	424
To the Textile Workers of Petrograd	425
Motion for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Reduction of the Army	425
To the Russian Colony in North America	425
Draft Resolution for the Fourth Congress of the Comintern on the Question of the Programme of the Communist International	427
Proposals for the Distribution of Functions Between the Deputy Chairmen of the CPC and the CLD	428
Re Draft Proposal for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) on the Report of the State Supplies Commission	429
Proposal for the Plenum Regarding the Politbureau Standing Order	429
Proposals Concerning the Work Routine of the Deputy Chairmen and the Chairman of the CPC	430
Letter to L. B. Kamenev, A. I. Rykov and A. D. Tsyurupa on the Distribution of Work Between the Deputy Chairmen of the CPC and the CLD	432

1923

Materials to the Article “How We Should Reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection” Plan of an Article “What Should We Do with the W.P.I.?" What Should We Do with the W.P.I.? What Should We Do with the W.P.I.? (continuation) What Should We Do with the W.P.I.? (continuation 2)

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APPENDIX

Questionnaire for Delegates of the Ninth Congress of the RCP(b)	443
Reregistration Form for Members of the Moscow Organisation of the RCP(b)	445
Questionnaire for Delegates of the Ninth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(Bolsheviks)	449
Questionnaire for Delegates of the Tenth All-Russia Congress of the RCP	450
Questionnaire for Delegates of the Eleventh All-Russia Conference of the RCP(Bolsheviks)	455
All-Russia Census Form for Members of the RCP(b)	457
Questionnaire for Delegates of the Eleventh Congress of the RCP(Bolsheviks)	462
Journal of Lenin’s Duty Secretaries November 21, 1922-March 6, 1923	463