Re Draft Resolution for the CC, RCP(b) on the Food Surplus-Appropriation System in the Ukraine

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This document was incorporated almost in toto in the resolution of the CC of the Russian Communist Party adopted on February 19, 1919.

On March 11, 1919, the CC adopted a new detailed resolution on the food policy in the Ukraine. On one of the pages of the typewritten text of this resolution, which is kept in the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Lenin had written: “Endorsed 11.111. at the Bureau of the CC of the RCP as a directive for the Ukrainian RCP and the Ukrainian Soviet Government. 11. III. 1919. Lenin”.

In issuing this directive, the CC, RCP proposes that the following established principle be adhered to: from the poor peasants—nothing, the middle peasants—moderately, the rich peasants—heavily.

We advise fixing the maximum surplus, for example, 500 million poods for the whole of the Ukraine, of which one-fifth or one-tenth share be assessed for requisitioning.