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Letter to Sergey Chutskayev, March 5, 1920
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First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 352b-353a.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 352b-353a.
Keywords : Letter, Sergey Chutskayev
5/III.
Comrade Chutskayev,
Especially urgent measures must be adopted to speed up the sorting of valuables.[1] If we are too late, they will give nothing for them in Europe and America.
In Moscow, a thousand Party members, etc., can (and should) be mobilised for this work under special control.
At your end, evidently, the whole business is dragging woefully.
Write what extraordinary measures you are taking to speed things up.
Lenin
- â This refers to valuable antiques, luxury articles and works of art that had been nationalised. In February 1919, Maxim Gorky set up a committee of experts in Petrograd to select and value these articles. Up to October 1, 1920, this committee, consisting of 80 persons, had selected, as Gorky wrote, â120,000 various articlesâ (V. I. Lenin i A. M. Gorky. Pisma, vospominaniya, dokumenty [V. I. Lenin and A. M. Gorky. Letters, Recollections, Documents], 1961, p. 164). This work, however, progressed extremely slowly. On Gorkyâs letter, Lenin wrote: âonly 8stores out of 33 have been gone throughâ (ibid.).