Letter to Vyacheslav Molotov and All Members of the Politbureau of the RCP(b) CC, December 5, 1921

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 5 December 1921


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First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 402-403
Keywords : Central Committee, Letter, Politburo, CPSU, Vyacheslav Molotov

To Comrade Molotov with a request to circulate it among all members of the Politbureau.

It is necessary (1) to find out who is “Kurzhnir”?

Could he be Kushner, the author of the pamphlet on electrification?

(2) There is need to devote more attention to Myasnikov’s agitation, and report about him and about it to the Politbureau twice a month.

(3) The Politbureau should have a special discussion on how to respond to this letter.[1]

5/XII. Lenin

5.XII.1921

Comrade Molotov:

Orlov (the author of an excellent book about the food supply work of the People’s Commissariat for Food) has addressed an unusual request to the CC

I am in favour.

Tsyurupa (who knows Orlov personally; I know him by his book) is also in favour.

We must poll the Politbureau members.

If they do not object, we must cable Krestinsky: “CC approved Orlov’s plans about his book.”[2]

Lenin

  1. ↑ Written on a copy of G. I. Myasnikov’s letter to engineer B. A. Kurzhner, a Party member in Petrograd, in which Myasnikov proposed to intensify, in connection with the forthcoming Eleventh Congress of the RCP(b), subversive activity against the Party’s policy.
    The Politbureau of the RCP(b) Central Committee discussed G. I. Myasnikov’s case at several of its sittings, and on February 20, 1922, approved the proposal of a Politbureau commission to expel him from the Party for gross breach of Party discipline and anti-Party activity.
  2. ↑ N. A. Orlov, author of the book Prodovolstvennaya rabota sovetskoi vlasti (The Soviet Power’s Food Supply Work) (1918), was in charge of the economic department of the journal Novy Mir, which was published by the Soviet embassy in Berlin. Orlov requested permission to write a book, Economic History of Soviet Russia (Research Essay), and to publish it abroad under a penname in several foreign languages. He believed it was better to have the book written not from an openly communist standpoint, but in the tone of an objectively minded non-Party researcher, taking a favourable view of the Soviet power. For, argued Orlov, writing in “a clearly apologetic vein ... fails to produce the desired impression” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).
    Lenin’s proposal was adopted by the Politbureau of the RCP(b) Central Committee on December 7, 1921.
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