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TO A. G. GOIKHBARG. FEBRUARY 2, 1921
5) Is there any hope of our collecting in Moscow every-
thing published by Marx and Engels?
6) Is there a catalogue of everything already collected
here?
7) Are we collecting the letters of Marx and Engels (or
copies of them) or is that impossible?
With communist greetings,
Lenin
Written on February 2 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 4 2
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
61
TO A. G. GOIKHBARG
Comrade Goikhbarg:
About the reports by the People’s Commissars, you (the
Narrow Council) should pay particular attention to the
execution of the most important decisions.
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The burning question today is flats in Moscow. Appoint
check-ups,
with reports in the Narrow Council
twice a week:
how many houses, flats, rooms have been given (you will
recall that 10 houses have to be given).
Also check up on the allocation.
The population of Moscow is being inflated by the grow-
ing staffs. This should be verified; perhaps, we should adopt
a decision.
A People’s Commissariat increasing the number of its
staffs without the permission of the Narrow Council should
be subjected to various penalties (prohibition to increase
even by one person).
Draw up a list of the People’s Commissariats which are
to reduce the number of their staffs weekly (People’s Com-
missariat for Defence, the Supreme Economic Council, the
People’s Commissariat for Railways and certain others).
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The rest may increase their staffs only with the permission
of the Narrow Council.
Lenin
Written on February 2 , 1 9 2 1
First published in part
on January 1 6 , 1 9 5 7
in the newspaper
Sovetskaya Rossiya No. 1 3
First published in 1 9 5 9
Printed from
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI
a typewritten copy
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TO V. N. MANTSEV
Comrade Mantsev:
Outrageous things are happening in the Ukraine.
The Politbureau directive (to have Peshekhonov and
the Peshekhonovites removed from Kharkov) is being foiled.
Some of the Ukrainian C.C. members are allowing them-
selves to be deceived by Peshekhonov and the Peshekhonov-
ites.
That is clear. We too shall not allow ourselves to be
fooled any longer.
I authorise you, on your personal responsibility (on
condition of secret and direct and regular communication
with the Politbureau in Moscow) to:
(1) keep Peshekhonov under full observation;
(2) send the results here;
(3) similarly with all the other Peshekhonovites, a list
of them;
(4) secure Peshekhonov’s immediate resignation and his
dispatch to Moscow.
The Ukrainian C.C. is in complete disarray. Let’s see
if you can do this properly.
With communist greetings,
Lenin
3/II.1921.
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
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TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY. FEBRUARY 14, 1921
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TO E. M. SKLYANSKY
6.II.1921
Comrade Sklyansky:
Let me have the telegram from the Saratov Gubernia
military commissar, the “reply” to which from the Com-
mander-in-Chief you sent me today.
The reply is stupid and here and there illiterate.
It is a bureaucratic handout, instead of a business-like
approach: banditry must be
wiped out, instead of being
formally written about.
Let them give me, twice a week, brief, very brief results
of the fight against banditry.
Also bring home to the field staff that they should work,
instead of writing formal notes.
Who is this “field staff military commissar” Ilyushin,
what is his record?
Lenin
First published in part in 1 9 3 8
in the magazine Bolshevik No. 2
Published in full in 1 9 4 2
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
64
TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY
4.II.1921
Comrade Lunacharsky
Copies to Comrade Pokrovsky
and Comrade Litkens
Please let me have a list of teachers with solid practical
experience (a) in general teaching activity generally; (b) in
vocational and technical education—briefly indicating lit-
erary works and length of Soviet service.
I have already asked for this many times. There should
be no red tape in this matter.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, C.P.C.