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TO N. P. GORBUNOV. JANUARY 12, 1921
corn
? 4 4 — 4 3
Delivered
oats
540 — 19
voluntarily...
potatoes
115 (circ.) — 115
poultry
in full
eggs
in full
meat78 poods—78 poods
Request: reduce the obligatory deliveries of hay and corn
(fearful of detachments).
Written on January 6 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
40
TO N. P. GORBUNOV
Comrade Gorbunov:
It is necessary.
1) to have this translated into (good) German,
2) find out (from Semashko and M. N. Pokrovsky or
through them) whether we could add
that Pavlov has not applied to leave (is it true that he
would not like to go?),
that he has been given the specified privileges.
Since my letter may be published, the addition of this
is highly desirable.
Yours,
Lenin
P.S. Please return all these documents to me.
Written on January 6 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
41
TO N. P. GORBUNOV
12/I.1921.
Comrade Gorbunov:
I most earnestly request you to telephone the Electrical
Department of the (Moscow) Gubernia Economic Council
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at once and to speed up this matter in every possible way,
taking it to the end, to its completion. Please inform me of
any delay.
Lenin
For my part, I enclose an engineer’s estimate (at the
Gorki state farm) of what is required.
If this is not available at the Moscow Gubernia Economic
Council (the Electrical Department), send them a copy.
We should check up on whether their request is not
excessive.
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Lenin
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
42
TELEPHONE MESSAGE
LUNACHARSKY AND Y. A. LITKENS
Please confirm by telephone message that the resolutions
of the recent conference of Party workers in education, re-
solutions relating to the reorganisation of the People’s Com-
missariat, are not being implemented, in conformity with
the C.C. decision, pending the examination of these resolu-
tions by the Party C.C.
39
Lenin
Written on January 1 4 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 5 9
Printed from a copy
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI
in Maria Glyasser’s hand
43
TO N. P. GORBUNOV
Comrade Gorbunov,
1) Concerning your note on the secretariat. Let’s discuss
it when we meet. Don’t start for the time being.
2) I enclose Shklovskaya’s letter. Request: read and
telephone the C.C. (secretaries) and the People’s Commis-
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TO DVOSYA SHKLOVSKAYA. JANUARY 18, 1921
sariat for Foreign Affairs, saying that I ask them to meet her
request. I know the family, they will not survive in Russia
at present.
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3) Concerning the electric lighting at Gorki
*
: I have also
received an application from the village of Siyanovo (has
it been passed on to you?). Let the person concerned have
a look at it, although it is far. Are you speeding up the
whole business?
4) Please find out, without taking any steps until we
meet, whether anything is being done anywhere (C.C.,
Telegraph Agency of Russia, People’s Commissariats, etc.)
α) regular press cuttings,
β) pasting up of cuttings for reference system.
If something is being done, have a look and tell me how.
If not, let us discuss how to start this business when
we meet.
Regards,
Lenin
Written on January 1 8 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
44
TO DVOSYA SHKLOVSKAYA
**
Dear D. Z.:
I quite understand you. When I spoke to your husband, I
told him right away: wouldn’t it be better to go abroad?
For I clearly saw that you would not be able to manage here
(especially in Moscow). I was very much surprised that he
refused to recognise this obvious fact.
I am not in Moscow at present.
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I have written to Gor-
bunov (a very good man), asking him on my behalf to talk
both with the C.C. and the People’s Commissariat for
*
See Document 41 of this volume.—Ed.
**
On the envelope Lenin wrote: “Comrade D. Z. Shklovskaya,
3/69 Sheremetyevsky pereulok; (please sign for letter) (from Lenin).”—
Ed.