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Letter to Grigori Sokolnikov, March 15, 1922
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| Author(s) | Lenin |
|---|---|
| Written | March 15, 1922 |
- First published in part on February 14, 1924 in Pravda No. 36. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 512b-513a.
Collection(s): Pravda
Keywords : Grigori Sokolnikov, Letter
Comrade Sokolnikov
People’s Commissariat for Finance
Considering that the press, both Soviet and Party, had earlier, namely, in connection with the Glavzemkhoz[1]
exhibition from September 18 to 25, 1921, unanimously assessed Comrade Runov’s work as being exceptionally successful in founding proletarian agriculture, and considering that this assessment had been confirmed by a decision of the Council of Labour and Defence of 30/IX–1921, I think that Runov’s enclosed application should be unconditionally and fully satisfied.[2]
I ask Comrade Sokolnikov to reply to me without delay, in substance, through Comrade Gorbunov.[3]
- ↑ See Note 619.—Ed.
- ↑ T. A. Runov, head of Glavzemkhoz, in a telephone message to Lenin, requested the urgent appropriation of 115,000 pre-war rubles to cover the cost of repairing seven machines for land improvement operations, which had been obtained from the Far-Eastern Republic with Lenin’s help. Glavzemkhoz—Central Administration for the Farms of Industrial Enterprises of the Republic—was set up in the spring of 1919. Among the participants in its exhibition which Lenin mentions were 73 state farms, with over 15,000 dessiatines of farmland, situated closest to Moscow, from Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, Smolensk and Kaluga gubernias. The exhibition was a great success and in a week was visited by over 100,000 persons (see this volume, Document 409).
- ↑ On March 20, N. P. Gorbunov received a report from Maisky, head of the financial and accounts department of Glavzemkhoz (see Note 619), saying that the issue of funds to Glavzemkhoz would be examined by the State Bank Board on March 21, 1922. Sokolnikov’s reply has not been found.