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Letter to Leon Trotsky, December 21, 1922
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 606b.
On December 18, 1922, the Plenum of the RCP(b) Central Committee rescinded a decision taken by the plenum in October, and reaffirmed “the absolute need to maintain and effect the organisational strengthening of the foreign trade monopoly” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee). The Twelfth Party Congress, held in Moscow from April 17 to 25, 1923, also confirmed that the foreign trade monopoly was not to be tampered with.
It looks as though it has been possible to take the position without a single shot, by a simple manoeuvre. I suggest that we should not stop and should continue the offensive, and for that purpose put through a motion to raise at the Party congress the question of consolidating our foreign trade, and the measures to improve its implementation. This to be announced in the group of the Congress of Soviets. I hope that you will not object to this, and will not refuse to give a report in the group.
N. Lenin
December 21, 1922