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27. X. 1920 Gubernia Party Committee Vladimir (gubernia centre) I certify that Comrades Ratnikov, Rybakov, Romanov and Glazunov visited me on 27. X. 1920 on behalf of the uyezd Party conference (Alexandrov Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia) in regard to a case of flagrant Party and Soviet abuses.
I consider their approach to me quite in order and called for by the circumstances of the case and ask to be informed what general procedure you have established for members of uyezd Party organisations to approach Moscow in general and the C.C., R.C.P. in particular. With communist greetings, V. Ulyanov (Lenin) First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV 736 TO THE CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.) Comrades Dzerzhinsky, Muranov, Preobrazhensky, and others I earnestly request you to receive personally Comrades Ratnikov, Rybakov, Romanov and Glazunov from the uyezd Party conference (Alexandrov Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia) about a case of flagrant, exceedingly glaring abuses (So- viet and Party) at the Troitsk Equipment Works, and partic- ularly about the difficulties experienced by Party members in taking the case to the centre and getting it speedily examined if even through Party channels. Apparently—this
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is my impression—there is something wrong in the Gubernia Party Committee as well. I enclose a copy of the decision of the Orgbureau. With communist greetings, V. Ulyanov (Lenin) Written on October 2 7 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 4 2 Printed from in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV the typewritten text signed by Lenin
28. X. 1920 1 ) Comrade Rykov (or, if he has not yet recovered, Com- rade Milyutin) 2) and Comrade I. I. Radchenko, Chief Peat Committee Copies to: 3) R. E. Klasson
(to be
found through
Radchenko) 4) Krzhizhanovsky, Chairman of the State Com- mission for the Electrification of Russia 5) Sklyansky (§ 4) and Trotsky 6) Lezhava and Lomonosov 7) the Cinema Department 8) Sosnovsky 9) Shatunovsky (Chief Transport Commission). On 27. X. 1920, a film before a large Party audience showed the working of a new hydraulic pump (of engineer R. E. Klasson) which mechanises the extraction of peat, as compared with the old method. In this connection, an exchange of opinions took place between engineer Klasson, Comrades Radchenko and Moro- zov—representatives of the Chief Peat Committee, Comrade Shatunovsky (from the Chief Transport Commission), and myself. This exchange of opinions revealed that the heads of the Chief Peat Committee fully agree with the inventor on the great importance of this invention. In all the work for restoring the national economy of the R.S.F.S.R. and for the country’s electrification, mechanisation of peat 457 TO A. I. RYKOV AND I. I. RADCHENKO. OCTOBER 28, 1920 extraction makes it possible to go ahead immeasurably more rapidly and firmly and on a broader front. It is therefore essential immediately to take a number of measures on a national scale to develop this work. Please discuss this question immediately and give me without delay your comments (corrections, additions, coun- ter-plans, and so on) on the following proposals arising from yesterday’s preliminary exchange of opinions. 1 . To regard work on applying the hydraulic method of peat extraction as of prime state importance and therefore especially urgent-To pass a decision to this effect through the Council of People’s Commissars on Saturday, 30/X. 2. To instruct all chief committees (and other bodies), on whose support the successful work of the Commission (or committee?) for Hydraulic Peat Extraction (under the Chief Peat Committee) mainly depends, to delegate their represen- tatives (preferably Communists or, in any case, people known to be conscientious and particularly energetic) to take a permanent part in this commission. To make them respon- sible, in particular, for the speediest fulfilment, without any procrastination, of the orders and requests of this commis- sion. To give the Council of People’s Commissars the names and addresses of these representatives. 3. The same in regard to some of the most important fac- tories involved. List of these factories to be drawn up. 4. To instruct the Naval Department to have its own representative on the commission, one fully acquainted with the stocks of materials and technical facilities of this depart- ment. 5. To issue Red Army rations to the group of people on whose work the rapid and complete success of the matter directly depends, increasing at the same time their remune- ration so as to enable them to devote themselves wholly and completely to their work. To instruct the Commis- sion for Hydraulic Peat Extraction to send immediately to the People’s Commissariat for Food and the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions a list (exact) of these peo- ple, indicating standards of remuneration, bonuses, etc. 6. To discuss immediately with the People’s Commis- sariat for Foreign Trade what orders should be placed at once with Swedish and German factories (perhaps engaging
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there one or several prominent chemists) so that by the sum- mer of 1921 we can receive what is necessary for the speed- iest and widest application of the hydraulic method. In particular, to make use of Comrade Lomonosov who is due to leave for Sweden and Germany within the next few days. 7. To instruct the Cinema Department (of the People’s Commissariat for Education?) to arrange for the film of the hydraulic method to be shown on a wide scale (partic- ularly in Petrograd, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Moscow and
without fail, of a brief and popular leaflet (ask Comrade Sosnovsky to edit it) explaining the gigantic importance of mechanising peat extraction and of electrification. 8. I fix the first report of the Commission for the Hydrau-
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Chairman, C.P.C. P.S. Comrade Rykov, should not the question be raised of using more of the materials and technical facilities of the Naval Department for the needs of the production of the means of production? Why should we want new battle- ships and the like? Aren’t they out of place just now? Sha-
man; a worker, studied mathematics abroad) says (according to Sosnovsky) that in the Naval Department Trotsky discov- ered something like a million poods of first-grade steel (for battleships) and took it for the Chief Transport Commission. Check this, think it over, perhaps we shall put it before the Council of Defence or the Council of People’s Commis- sars.
Yours, Lenin First published in part in 1 9 2 5 in the book: G. Boltyansky,
Published in part (without the Printed from the original; postscript) in 1 9 3 4 in the book: the postscript—from the
text in Glyasser’s hand- fronte. Sbornik vospominanii, writing
Moscow Published in full in 1 9 6 5 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 459 TO P. I. POPOV. OCTOBER 30, 1920 738 TELEGRAM TO M. V. FRUNZE 484
In code 28. X. 1920 Frunze, Commander of the Southern Front Copy to Trotsky In reply to your No. 001/пш. I am indignant at your optimistic tone, when you yourself report that there is only one chance in a hundred that the main task, set long ago, will be successful. If things are so outrageously bad, I ask you to discuss measures of the utmost urgency for bringing up heavy artillery, for constructing lines for its transport, for getting sappers, and so on.
First published in 1 9 4 1 Printed from the original in the book: M. V. Frunze na frontakh grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov 739 TO P. I. POPOV 485
1) The number of Soviet office workers. 2) By separate People’s Commissariats. 3) If possible—by departments. 4) If possible—according to the main categories (experts, service personnel, clerical staff, etc.). 5) Other information (sex, etc.) depending on the kind of information in the questionnaire. Please divide the work into two parts: 1) The briefest information (number, etc.). Not more than 4 weeks. 2) Detailed information—how many weeks? 3) The most detailed—how many weeks? V. Lenin 30/X. 1920 First published in 1 9 4 5 Printed from in Lenin Miscellany XXXV the typewritten copy V. I. L E N I N 460
740 TO S. I. BOTIN Comrade Botin, Please keep a record of all experiments 1 ) strength of the current or electrical energy, 2) where (how many sazhens off), and in accordance with
cle and behind it, 3) on the ground, above, below, underground (depth), 4) which ones and when were detonated, 5) the record to be signed by all three, and to be kept
For each experiment a separate entry (day, hour, etc.). Yours,
Written in October 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 741 INSTRUCTION ON N. A. SEMASHKO’S TELEPHONE MESSAGE At its sitting on October 4, the Council of People’s Commissars decided to ask the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front to vacate the university premises in Smolensk, and direct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to enforce this de- cision by telegraph. In pursuance of the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars, Comrade Sklyansky transmitted this instruc- tion to the Revolutionary Military Council for fulfilment. Never- theless, up to now the university premises have not been vacated by the Western Front Headquarters. In view of the extreme need of the university (of a special faculty) for premises, I am submitting a com- plaint to you on account of the non- fulfilment of the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars and ask for categorical orders to be issued to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front. Semashko People’s Commissar for Health 461 TO A. Z. GOLTSMAN. NOVEMBER 3, 1920 Comrade Sklyansky Carry out without delay. Report on fulfilment and I will take up the question of non-compliance and punish- ment in the Narrow Council. V. Ulyanov (Lenin) Chairman, C.P.C. 2/XI. Written on November 2 , 1 9 2 0 First published in 1 9 6 5 Printed from the original in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 742 TO A. Z. GOLTSMAN Urgent. Personal 3/XI.1920. 21. 25 hours Comrade Goltsman Copy to Eismont Copy to the Chief Clothing Board The Chief Clothing Board should submit for consideration by the Bonus Awards Commission the question of bonuses for the production of 20,000 pairs of hunting boots. The question is of tremendous importance for our victory in the south, and it is most important that the boots be made quickly. I request you to look into this urgently, and to take steps to ensure that the boots are actually made in the time demanded by the Commander - in - Chief, Comrade Ka- menev.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin) Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence P.S. I direct Comrade Sklyansky to control the fulfil- ment.
* Lenin First published in part in 1 9 6 1 Printed from the typewrit- in the book: Leninskiye idei zhivut ten text,
added to and signed (Lenin’s Ideas Live and Triumph. by Lenin A Collection of Articles) Published in full in 1 9 6 5 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 5 1 * The postscript is in Lenin’s handwriting.—Ed. N O T E S 465 1 2 Lenin’s instruction was written on an order to the Red Guard Staff issued by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. The order gave instructions for petrol, four artillery batteries, three motorcars, field telephones and cyclists or motorcyclists to be dispatched to the Pulkovo headquarters at positions near Tsarskoye Selo. The order called for the dispatch of petrol, a motorcar, two artillery batteries, sappers for trench-digging, motorcycle or bicycle messengers and maps of the locality, to the Staff of the Izmailovo Regiment on the main road to Moscow. The Military Revolutionary Committee proposed also that “a joint staff for the operation as a whole” should be set up and food supplies organised for the Red Guard. p. 43
This refers to a resolution of the Petrograd Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) on the question of setting up a “homogeneous socialist government” of representatives from various parties and organisations “from the Bolsheviks to the Popular Socialists”. The demand for such a government came from the Mensheviks and Socialist- Revolutionaries, who counted on playing the lead- ing role in it. Their proposal had the support of some of the members of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.)—L. B. Kamenev, G. Y. Zinoviev, A. I. Rykov and their few adherents. The C.C. of the Bolshevik Party at a sitting held on November 2 (15), 1917, strongly condemned the Right-opportunist, conciliatory attitude of the capitulators (see present edition, Vol. 26, pp. 277-79). Apparently, this note of Lenin’s was written during the sitting of the Central Committee. The note was read out at a sitting of the Petrograd Committee of the Party. In a resolution on the current situation, the Petro- grad Committee stated that the government in the proletarian republic had to be a government of the Soviets of Workers’, Sol- diers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, that the task of Soviet power was to put into effect the revolutionary programme advanced by the Bolsheviks, and that any departure from it was impermissible. This resolution was sent to the Party Central Committee. On November 3 (16), the Central Committee presented an ultimatum to the opposition minority demanding complete subor- 466 NOTES
dination to the decisions of the Central Committee (see present edition, Vol. 26, pp. 280-82). The conciliators, however, refused to submit to Party discipline, and resigned from the Central Com- mittee and the Council of People’s Commissars. The Central Committee branded them as saboteurs (see present edition, Vol. 26, brought into the government. p. 43 The letter to Y. M. Sverdlov apparently concerns F. F. Obraztsov, who had been received by Lenin as the representative from the peasants of four volosts of Tver Gubernia. At the top of the letter, Lenin wrote the words: “First floor, room 39.” This was the room in Smolny where Y. M. Sverdlov worked after his election on November 8 (21), 1917, as Chairman of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. p. 44 Lenin wrote this letter because the representative of the Interna- tional Association for Information of the Labour Press of America, France and Great Britain, the Rumanian journalist Nicolae Cocea, at that time in Petrograd, had requested him on behalf of the Association to reply to the following six questions: “1) Will the Government of People’s Commissars continue with the same vigour its former home policy and its international efforts on behalf of peace? 2) What great reforms are being planned by the present government for establishing a socialist system in Russia? 3) After the Constituent Assembly is convened will the Government of People’s Commissars be responsible to it as in constitutional states, or not? 4) Do you think that the peace Russia proposes will put an end to militarism throughout the world? 5) When and how do you intend to begin demobilising the Russians? 6) Do you think that with the present state of Europe the complete realisa- tion of socialism is possible?” In a letter in reply to Lenin, Nicolae Cocea assured him that his conditions in regard to the publication of his replies would be fully observed. Lenin wrote on Cocea’s letter: “Reply given 10/XI. 1917.” Lenin’s replies to the questions put to him have not been found. The document published here was discovered in Rumania. In 1960 the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers’ Party presented it to the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. p. 44
On November 22 (December 5), 1917, the Council of People’s Commissars adopted a decree on courts of law, which was pub- lished the following day in the newspaper Pravda. On November 24 (December 7), in connection with this decree, the question of courts of law was discussed at a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The Soviet passed a resolu- tion approving the decree and indicated practical measures for its implementation. The district Soviets were instructed to im- mediately begin the election of local judges. p. 45
Mensheviks—an opportunist trend among Russian Social- Demo- crats, one of the varieties of international opportunism. It was 3 4
6 pp. 302-03). New people, loyal to the cause of the Party, were 467 NOTES
7 8 9 formed at the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (in 1903) out of the opponents of the Leninist Iskra. At this Congress the elec- tion of the Party’s central bodies resulted in Lenin’s support- Download 6.35 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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