On the Question of Relations with the Middle Peasants

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Re plan of urgent measures in favour of the middle peasant:[edit source]

1) Special tax on middle peasants to be relaxed at once.

2) Party people to be sent out (3 from each gubernia committee) specially to work for the middle peasants .

3) Commissions to be set up in the centre (a number of them) and sent out to the local areas to defend the middle peasant.

4) Draw up and endorse plan for Kalinin’s tours. Publish dates, places, reception of visitors, etc.

5) Participation in these tours (Points 4 and 5) by the People’s Commissariats for Justice, Internal Affairs, Agriculture, and others.

6) Press campaign.

7) “Manifesto” in defence of the middle peasant.

8) Verification (and cancellation) of coercive measures for joining the communes.

9) Verification of food measures in the direction of relaxing requisitions, exactions, etc., from the middle peasants .

10) Amnesty.

11) “Identification of the kulak.”

12) Surplus appropriation of grain and fodder.

13) Handicraftsmen and artisans recognised.