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Letter to Nikolai Gorbunov, January 18, 1921
First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.
Comrade Gorbunov,
1) Concerning your note on the secretariat. Let’s discuss it when we meet. Don’t start for the time being.
2) I enclose Shklovskaya’s letter. Request: read and telephone the CC (secretaries) and the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, saying that / ask them to meet her request. I know the family, they will not survive in Russia at present.[1]
3) Concerning the electric lighting at Gorki[2] : I have also received an application from the village of Siyanovo (has it been passed on to you?). Let the person concerned have a look at it, although it is far. Are you speeding up the whole business?
4) Please find out, without taking any steps until we meet, whether anything is being done anywhere (CC, Telegraph Agency of Russia, People’s Commissariats, etc.)
α) regular press cuttings,
β) pasting up of cuttings for reference system.
If something is being done, have a look and tell me how.
If not, let us discuss how to start this business when we meet.
Regards,
Lenin
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Comrade N. P. Gorbunov:
Please give a closer reading to Comrade Eiduk’s material[3] and have a talk with him,
to try to formulate the practical proposals
together with him.
Tell Comrade Eiduk that I am extremely interested in this most important matter, and very much regret that I am unable just now to take it up personally.
But once the practical proposals are there, I shall tackle it.
2) The Narrow Council business as designated.
Yours,
Lenin
- ↑ In a letter to Lenin of January 14, 1921, Dvosya Shklovskaya (G. L. Shklovsky’s wife) wrote that since their return to Russia from exile abroad in October 1920, she herself and her children especially were constantly unwell and could not adapt to local conditions. She asked Lenin for help in having Shklovsky sent to work abroad to enable his family to go with him.
On her letter, Lenin wrote: “Comrade Gorbunov. This is a fair request; I earnestly ask you to meet it In Russia, this family will not survive. Lenin. Please make a note of the address. Send on to Krestinsky” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee). On the question of Shklovsky’s departure for abroad, see this volume, Documents 44, 72 and 196 and Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 52, Documents 138, 139, 250, 284, 314, 407, 408, 409, 424, 406. - ↑ See Document 41 of this volume.—Ed.
- ↑ A reference to the memorandum and report on the state of and prospects for fuel supply in the Soviet Republic submitted by A. V. Eiduk, a special representative of the Council of Labour and Defence for central fuel administrations. On January 20, 1921, N. P. Gorbunov and Eiduk formulated practical proposals on this question. On January 28, the CLD set up a plenipotentiary commission on fuel, headed by V. A. Avanesov, and on January 31, following an examination of Eiduk’s report about the disastrous state of the railways, the CLD included him in the commission as well, adopting a decision on fuel on February 2.