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The Socialist Academy Of Social Sciences
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, Volume 27, page 404-405
I. Draft Decision of the Council of People’s Commissars[edit source]
Written on May 25, 1918
The question of founding a Socialist Academy of Social Sciences was discussed by the Council of People’s Commissars on May 25, 1918. The draft statute for the Academy submitted by the People’s Commissariat for Education did not satisfy Lenin and he drew up the proposals published here; aEparently they were written during the meeting. They were su sequently approved by the CPC
On June 7, the Government considered the Statute of the Social-ist Academy which had been revised on the basis of Lenin’s proposals. The Decree (Statute) of the All-Russia CEC on the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences was published on July 12, 1918, in the newspaper Izvestia VTsNC No. 145 (see Decrees of the Soviet Gouernment, Russ. ed., Vol. 2, 1959, pp. 468-79). The Academy was officially opened on October 1, 1918.
The Council of people’s Commissars, fully approving and welcoming the idea underlying the draft for the foundation of the Socialist Academy, instructs the Commissariat for Education to remake this draft on the following bases:
1)—a publishing society of a Marxist trend to be made the cornerstone;
2)—Marxist forces abroad to be enlisted in especially large numbers;
3)—a series of social investigations to be made one of the primary tasks;
4)—immediate measures to be taken to ascertain, assemble and utilise Russian personnel available for lecturing.
II. Directives For The Commission[edit source]
Written on June 7, 1918
The Commission is to be instructed:
1) to make a detailed examination of the Rules of the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences for submission to the Council of People’s Commissars and then to the CEC;
2) to begin immediately an exchange of opinions on this question, and also on the question of membership, with non-Russian and foreign Marxists;
3) to compile and discuss a list of suitable and willing candidates as foundation members, and as teachers, for submission of this list to the Council of People’s Commissars and the CEC.[1]
- ↑ Lists of Members of the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences and teachers at the Academy, which had been approved by the All-Russia CEC, were published on August 9, 1918, in the newspaper Izvestia VTsIK No. 169.
On February 5, 1922, Lenin was elected a member of the Social-ist Acadoiny. When he was informed of his election by the Pre-sidium of the Academy, Lenin replied with the following note: “I ant very grateful. Unforttinately, I am not well enough to be able to perform even the smallest fraction of the duties of a member of the Socialist Academy. I do not want to be a fictitious member. I therefore request you to remove my name from the list of members or not to include it in the list” (Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 432).