Re Decision of the CPC Allocating Funds for the Upkeep of the Poor Peasants’ Committees

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2 x 6½ = 13[edit source]

Within a week.

Temporarily and tentatively pending amalgamation with the Soviets or delimitation of jurisdiction.

Instructions on whom to be given to and on what conditions.

Fix the liability of the recipient and under no circumstances issue further sums unless the first is accounted for.

Payment through the Commissariat for Food.[1]

  1. At a meeting of the CPC on October 15, 1918, the People’s Commissariat for Food tabled a proposal that 40 million rubles be allocated for the upkeep of the Poor Peasants’ Committees, apparently for a period of six months at the rate of 6.5 million rubles per month. In view of the impending amalgamation of these committees with the local Soviets, Lenin proposed a 2-month allocation of funds (”2 >< 6½=13”). The CPC adopted Lenin’s proposal for the allocation of 13 million rubles; the other proposals of Lenin’s were also included in the decision of the CPC (see Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. III, Moscow, 1964,pp. 593-95).