Letter to Leonid Krasin, December 17, 1919

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This note was apparently written in connection with the discussion at a meeting of the Council of Defence on December 17, 1919, of a report by L. B. Krasin: “On Drawing Up Forms of Accounting Enabling the Work of the Railways To Be Kept Under Review.” = The final decision on this question was put off until the next meeting; the Council of Defence instructed Y. V. Lomonosov, member of the Board of the Commissariat for Railways, to submit a report on the forms of accounting giving statistical data (“such forms”, the decision stipulated, “must be briefer than those presented by Comrade Krasin”). On December 24, the Council of Defence endorsed the programme of measures set forth by Lomonosov, and instructed the People’s Commissariat for Railways “to present it tomorrow to Comrade Lenin for signature in the form of a series of decrees” (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51, p. 396).

The document bears a note in an unknown hand: “Executed 19.XII.”

Send me tomorrow one copy each of the instructions and rules, forms of accounting, and other such publications

of the Commissariat for Railways,

of its Political Department,

of its Operational,

Technical,

Maintenance

departments (or boards),

scheme of organisation (if there is such a thing) of the Commissariat for Railways.