Letter to Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin, January 25, 1922

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Comrades Kamenev and Stalin:

I have just learned—to my horror—from Sokolnikov that he rejects (!) the Politbureau’s directive concerning the trio (he + Preobrazhensky + Krasnoshchekov).

This is chaos!

This is a scandal!

This means that the CC apparatus is not working! This should be reaffirmed not later than tomorrow.[1]

And—I insist again and again—that no question should be allowed to go to the Supreme Economic Commission without the written proposals and counter-proposals of the People’s Commissars and their deputies or assistants concerned. Otherwise this is chaos,

red tape,

empty talk,

irresponsibility.

9.30 p.m. 25/I.

Lenin

  1. ↑ On February 2, 1922, the Politbureau of the RCP(b) CC adopted a decision to the effect that questions having a fundamental bearing on RSFSR financial policy or going up for decision by the Politbureau were to be examined beforehand by a trio consisting of G. Y. Sokolnikov, A. M. Krasnoshchekov and Y. A. Preobrazhensky.