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Letter to Varlam Avanesov, June 1, 1921
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 35, page 504.
Avanesov, V. A. (1884â1930)âjoined the Party in 1903. In 1917 he became a member of the Presidium of the All-Russia CEC; in 1920â24, Deputy Peopleâs Commissar of the Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspection, member of the Collegium of the Cheka, and later Deputy Peopleâs Commissar for Foreign Trade.
June 1
Comrade Avanesov,
You should draw up a circular to all local bodies of the Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspection[1] on the subject of local economic conferences.
(1) You should require a personal list of all representatives of the Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspection in all economic conferences.
(2) You should be immediately informed of every change in the list.
(3) You should demand that, whether they are Communists or non-Party people, they should be specially and personally recommended for their reliability and honesty.
(4) You should demand that they be strictly accountable, particularly as regards drawing non-Party people into the work and as regards reports to them, the non-Party people, on the work of the economic councils.
All this should be brought before the Presidium of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and adopted, so that the local bodies conform to it.
Lenin
- â Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspection (Rabkrin) was set up in February 1920 on Leninâs initiative, on the basis of the reorganised Peopleâs Commissariat of Slate Control, which had been formed in the early months of Soviet power. Lenin attached great importance to control and verification at all levels. He worked out in detail the principles of organising control in the Soviet state, kept an eye on Rabkrinâs activity, criticised its shortcomings and did his best to make it more efficient. In his last articles, âHow We Should Reorganise the Workersâ and Peasantsâ Inspectionâ and âBetter Fewer, but Betterâ, Lenin outlined a plan for reorganising Rabkrin. The basic principles of Leninâs plan were to merge Party and state control and to enlist more workers and peasants in its activities.