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Special pages :
The Tasks and Organisation of the Work of the Council of Defence
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, pages 112b-114a.
The Council of Defence (Council of Workers and Peasantsâ Defence) was set up by the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on November 30, 1918, as a special organ of the Soviet state vested with full powers in the matter of mobilising the countryâs forcĂes and resources in the interests of defence. Lenin was appointed Chairman of the Council of Defence.
The documents published here were written by Lenin at the first meeting of the Council of Defence on December 1, 1918. First Lenin outlined the immeĂdiate tasks of the Council and the agenda for its first sitting (Document 1). Then he jotted down a number of proposals for elaborating these questions, formulating more detailed proposals on the food question (Documents 2 and 3). Leninâs proposals were reflected in the decisions of the Council of Defence adopted at its sitting (see Lenin Miscellany XVIII, pp. 243-45).
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1.XII.1918
1. General review of tasks. 2. Add from trade unions. 3. Standing order | Subjects of general review:
1. Food problem 2. Railway problem 3. Military supply 4. Mobilisation of intelligentsia 5. â â technical personnel 6. Fuel 7. State Military Inspection. |
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1. Task for the Food Commissariatâwithin 4 days present plan for speeding up and increasing purveyance, forward to Council of Defence | { Militarisation |
Set up in the Food Commissariat a Department for improving distribution of foodstuffs, for improving the distributing apparatus.
Merge Chief Economic Administration with the Food Commissariat +Prodput . Instruct Food Commissariat to work up the question (a) of delivering foodstuffs to the 3rd shift of the Tula Cartridge Factory +Simbrisk Cartridge Factory
(b) of introducing Red Army rations for peat and coal workers near Moscowâalso those on firewood jobs.
II. Bonuses Commission. On question II 3 commissions Collective Liability Commission.those on firewood jobs. State Control. Flying inspection those on firewood jobs.
III.
IV. & V. Krasin Krasin + Nevsky + Gorbunov[1]
VI. Fuel Commission: Lenin, Rykov, Volkovsky, Nevsky, Radchenko[2] Question of agents vs contractors.
VII. Supreme Military Inspection.
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1) order the Food Commissariat in shortest possible time to submit a plan for greatly intensifying grain purveyance as well as fodder;
2) when increasing the number of trios, local food supply workers to be appointed to them;
3) direct Comrade Krasin to carry out an urgent investigation into the question of utilising the stocks of boots in Petrograd;
(Khodinsky warehouse ober Food Commissariat[3]
4) brief demands or irregularities to be immediately reported to the chairman.
- â On Point 4 of the agenda (âOn the Mobilisation of Intellectualsâ)L. B. Krasin was instructed to draw up a draft decision for themobilisation of technical personnel; L. B. Krasin, V. I. Nevskyand N. P. Gorbunov were instructed to draw up draft regulationson questionnaires to be submitted to the CPC
- â The Council of Defence passed a decision for the fuel question to be considered by a special five-man commission, which was to be summoned by Lenin. The commission met on December 2,1918 (see the next document).
- â This refers to the warehouse belonging directly to the Peopleâs Commissariat for Food of the RSFSRâEd.