Letter to Avel Yenukidze, February 13, 1922

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 13 February 1922


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First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 466b-467a.
Keywords : Avel Yenukidze, Letter

Comrade Yenukidze:

From talks and reports here in Moscow, I conclude that there is something like slackness in the Presidium of the All-Russia CEC and its work. This is not surprising, because all its members are loaded with 20 jobs, as is the practice in our “Oblomov”[1] republic.

This tends to strengthen the influence of men like Larin. He is a good fellow—as poet, as journalist, as lecturer. But we are fools to appoint him to legislative work, thereby spoiling and ruining both him and the job.

For Christ’s sake, keep a stricter watch over him. Keep Larin in check. If he has already got somewhere, do not believe any of his plans or projects—do not let any pass without a triple check-up.

See that there is not the usual chaos, when efforts are made to get something through the Presidium of the All-Russia CEC (by means of half-truths) in circumvention of the CPC and the State Planning Commission.

Keep both your eyes peeled, and inform me (or Stalin with Kamenev) in good time.

Two other points:

1) Stalin’s flat. Well, when? What red tape!

2) Lalayants. How is he? If he is going to Siberia, I must give him a letter and arrange a place for him in the car through Sklyansky and Fomin.

Regards,

Yours,

Lenin

P.S. I have just sent you a paper about flats for Strumilin and Ramzin. Please do your Lest about this, get it done, and write me.[2]

Yours,

Lenin

  1. ↑ The sluggish hero of A. I. Goncharov’s novel of the same name.— Ed.
  2. ↑ [MISSING]
    On the first page of Yenukidze’s letter, Lenin wrote: “To Fotieva p. 3”, and on the third page—“check up fulfilment of § 3”, in which he underscored with a double line the words “about flats for Strumilin and Ramzin” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee),
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