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Marks on Nikolai Meshcheryakov’s Letter and a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b)
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First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 399.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 399.
Keywords : Draft, Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn, Nikolai Meshcheryakov, Conference, Grigori Zinoviev, Third International
| ...Now as regards the newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo. | ||
| ?? | ||
| 1) The Board of Centrosoyuz, which consists only of Communists, says that the newspaper is necessary if the co-operatives are to fulfil their difficult and new organising work and carry out the trade tasks imposed upon them. | ||
| 2) The paper’s editorial board consists only of Communists: I, Sarabyanov, Shvetsov, Kutuzov-Ilimsky, etc. | ||
| ?? | 3) A delegation of Western co-operators is coming to Russia. The closing of the newspaper will be taken ad vantage of by the old co-operators and will make co-operative work difficult. | |
| 4) The closing of the newspaper will be exploited at the Genoa Conference. | ||
| ha—ha!! | 5) So far there has been nothing hostile to Soviet power or communism in the paper... | |
| February 11, 1922 N. Meshcheryakov | ||
To Comrade Molotov for the Politbureau:
in view of the obvious flimsiness of Comrade Meshcheryakov’s arguments, I propose:
1) that the Board of Centrosoyuz be directed to replace the daily newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo with a weekly;
2) the personnel and funds thus released should be used wholly for improving the activities of headquarters in supervising and helping to develop proper trade by the co-operatives locally;
3) reports on the fulfilment of § 2 to be made monthly to the Politbureau;
4) more contributions to be made to Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn
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