Letter to Vyacheslav Molotov, June 18, 1921

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Molotov

I am entirely in favour. This should be done in formal terms: the Politbureau decision should be entered in the minutes.[1]

18/VI. Lenin

  1. ↑ Written on G. V. Chicherin’s letter to the RCP(b) Central Committee of June 15, 1921. Referring to the Emmott commission’s report to Parliament over the state of affairs in Soviet Russia, Chicherin suggested that a similar “inquiry” should be made into “Britain’s domestic conditions”. He proposed that “Comrade Radek should be = officially = authorised to start implementing this plan” (underscored by Lenin).
    On June 19, the Politbureau of the RCP(b) Central Committee resolved: “To adopt the draft and to authorise Comrade Radek to start implementing the proposed plan, with the right to enlist other comrades in the work at his discretion” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).