Letter to Joseph Stalin for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with a Draft Decision on the Composition of the All-Russia CEC

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Comrade Stalin for the Politbureau:

The session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee has shown how wrongly the ACEC is constituted. The great majority of its members are officials.

I propose that the Politbureau pass a decision:

"To recognise as essential that no less than 60 per cent of the members of the ACEC should be workers and peasants not occupying any official posts in government bodies; that no less than 67 per cent of the ACEC’s members should be Communists; a three-man commission consisting of Comrades Kalinin, Yenukidze and Kamenev, be directed to work up this question for the next plenum of the CC To be passed first through the Politbureau, then to the Plenum of the CC for enactment by the next All-Russia Congress of Soviets.[1]

23/V.1922

Lenin

  1. The Politbureau discussed Lenin’s motion at its meeting on May 26, 1922, and decided to pass it on as material to the commission set up by the CC to steer the work of the Third Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee of the Ninth Convocation.