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Letter to Nikolai Gorbunov, October 13, 1921
First published in Pravda No. 17, January 21, 1925. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 35, page 525.
October 13, 1921
Comrade Gorbunov,
Please get a decision, after the necessary agreement with the Chairman of the Narrow Council of People’s Commissars (and clearing the matter with the secretaries), that the system for summoning rapporteurs (both to the Full and the Narrow Council of People’s Commissars) should be altered.
At present those who have to report get a general summons to the meeting and wait for hours.
This is outrageous and barbarous.
You must see to it that they are told to come at one particular time.
Provided there is a double check by telephone, whether rapporteurs are needed, and which; provided there is a correct distribution of the agenda of the given meeting (business requiring rapporteurs, business not requiring them), we can and must see to it that rapporteurs do not wait more than 15 minutes.
Please, work out such a system without delay, considering it carefully, and let me have a decision on the subject, adopted by the Narrow Council of People’s Commissars.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
First published In 1933 in Lenin Miscellany. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 336b-337a.
13.X.1921
Comrade Gorbunov:
1) The pamphlet must be returned to the author (after making a note of its title and the author’s place of work).[1]
2) Try to find out in which libraries the book is available.
3) Write to engineer N. S. Vetchinkin, asking him whether he could write an article on this question for Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn or Izvestia.
Write a small pamphlet with the addition of conclusions from the latest (1914–1921) foreign literature.
4) Propose that the SEC Presidium should establish:
(a) the keeping of a correct inventory of our road-building machinery, by agreement with the War Department;
(b) persons responsible for the inventory and use of these machines (perhaps, these responsible persons should be at the SEC’s Public Works Committee?);
(c) discuss whether or not a small number of tractors should be assigned to this work to carry it on regularly.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, CPC
- ↑ A reference to a pamphlet by V. D. Batyushkov and N. S. Vetchinkin, Tverdiye gruntoviye dorogi (Hard-Cover Roads). The register of Lenin’s assignments to the CPC and CLD contains the following entry dated September 23, 1921: “Collect information about American machines for the fast laying of highways. Vladimir Ilyich heard about these machines from Comrade Bogdanov. Establish: = 1) How many machines do we have, where and how arc they working? = 2) What is the price of such machines abroad? 3) How far have they been improved? Get this thing going. Fulfilled October 3” (Istorichesky Arkhiv No. 5, 1961, p. 42).