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Letter to Dmitry Kursky and Assignment to Nikolai Gorbunov, February 15, 1922
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 470b-471a.
Comrade Kursky:
I enclose Koblentsâs reply to me.[1] After reading, please, return to N. P. Gorbunov:
1) I very strongly suspect that Koblents is poor, and that the whole of this department is poor too.
Koblents has clearly âforgottenâ that an enterprise leased from the Soviet power is still a Soviet enterprise;
2) ââconfused the question about subsequent or preliminary audit with the question of whether or not it is liable to auditing at all;
3) he has apparently âforgottenâ that the rights of the Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspection are not narrower than the State Controlâs old powers (Collection of Statutes, 1920, No. 16); he has forgotten many other things as well.
Conclusion: Koblentsâs opinion must be checked up, and if a careful study shows that Koblents has told a lie, he should be replaced by a more solid lawyer.
Let me know whom you will appoint as responsible for this check-up.
âââIf our laws are âcontradictoryâ (of which there is no doubt), what are the Peopleâs Commissariat for Justice and the Legislative Proposals Department for?
What then is being done towards codification?âtowards removal of contradictions?
In particular, this is just the time for urgently working out a clear and precise law on the extension of the W.P.I.âs powers to audit and inquire to all manner of establishments and enterprises (private, co-operative, concession, etc.).
Let me know who will be given this assignment.
With communist greetings,
Lenin
Comrade N. P. Gorbunov:
Please read this and make a note of it for yourself to keep an eye on execution.
Have this typed and sent to Comrade Kursky.[2]
- â See Collected Works, Fifth [Russian) Edition, Vol. 54, Supplement, Document 16.âEd.
- â The following day, February 16, 1922, D. I. Kursky replied to Leninâs letter, informing him that be had instructed V. I. Yakhontov, member of the Collegium of the Peopleâs Commissariat for Justice and head of the Codification Department, to verify I. G. Koblentsâs conclusion. Kursky wrote about the draft Statute of Obligations, Criminal Code, etc., which had been submitted for approval by the CPC, and about the elaboration of a number of laws at the Peopleâs Commissariats for Agriculture, Labour, and Justice. He admitted that there were contradictions in the existing laws. Sharing Leninâs view on the âneed to guarantee the state full auditing and controlâ, Kursky wrote that he would âconsider highly useful a CC directive in this respect for the Narrow CPC..â (underlined by Lenin) (see Lenin Miscellany XXXV, p. 326).