37
CONTENTS
793
.
TO G
.
V
.
CHICHERIN
.
November
,
not before the 8th
. . .
794
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
November ?5
. . . . . . . . . . .
795
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
,
G
.
Y
.
ZINOVIEV
,
N
.
I
.
BUKHARIN
AND K
.
B
.
RADEK
.
November ?5
. . . . . . . . . . .
796
.
TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ALL-RUSSIA C
.
E
.
C
.
Novem-
ber ?
9
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
797
.
ON N
.
M
.
KNIPOVICH’S NOTE
.
December 3
. . . . . . .
798
.
TO I
.
I
.
KHODOROVSKY
.
December 4
. . . . . . . . .
799
.
TO A
.
I
.
SVIDERSKY
.
December 5
. . . . . . . . . . .
800
.
TO CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ
.
December 7
. . . . .
801
.
TO G
.
Y
.
ZINOVIEV
.
December 7
or 8
. . . . . . . . .
802
.
TO J
.
V
.
STALIN
.
December 8
. . . . . . . . . . . .
803
.
L E T T E R T O C O N S T A N T I N O L A Z Z A R I A N D A S S I G N M E N T
TO SECRETARY
.
December 11
. . . . . . . . . . . .
804
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
December 1?
. . . . . . . . . . .
805
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
December 13
. . . . . . . . . . .
806
.
TO V
.
A
.
AVANESOV
.
December 14
. . . . . . . . . .
807
.
LETTER TO J
.
V
.
STALIN FOR MEMBERS OF THE R
.
C
.
P
.
(B
.
)
C
.
C
.
December 15
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
808
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
December 15
. . . . . . . . . . .
809
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
December 15
. . . . . . . . . . .
810
.
TO DEPUTY CHAIRMEN OF THE C
.
P
.
C
.
AND C
.
L
.
D
.
Decem-
ber 16
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 1 1
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
December ?1
. . . . . . . . . . .
19 ?
3
812
.
TO L
.
D
.
TROTSKY
.
March 5
. . . . . . . . . . . .
813
.
TO COMRADE STALIN
.
March 5
. . . . . . . . . . .
814
.
TO P
.
G
.
MDIVANI
,
F
.
Y
.
MAKHARADZE AND OTHERS
.
March 6
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Name Index
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
592
593
593
594
595
595
596
597
598
598
600
601
601
602
602
604
604
605
606
607
607
608
609
759
39
P R E F A C E
Volume 45 contains letters, notes, telegrams and tele-
phone messages written from November 1920 to March
1923. They are connected with Lenin’s works which make
up volumes 31, 32, 33, 35 and 36 of the present edition,
and largely supplement them.
These documents cover the new historical period in the
life of the Soviet state which began after the rout of the
foreign
armed
intervention
and
domestic
counter-
revolution, a period of peaceful socialist construction.
This had to be carried on in the midst of economic dis-
location, a shortage of food and a lack of fuel. The inter-
national situation was also complicated. The imperialists
did their utmost in hampering the Soviet people’s effort
to heal the economic wounds and to establish ties with
other countries. Faced with these serious internal and ex-
ternal political difficulties, Lenin did a vast amount of work
in guiding the Communist Party and the Soviet state,
socialist construction and foreign policy, charting the ways
of transition from “War Communism” to the New Econom-
ic Policy (NEP), and directing the implementation of the
measures mapped out by the Party to put NEP through.
A number of letters set out major propositions on the
substance and importance of NEP, which, Lenin said,
should be viewed in the context of the general tasks and pros-
pects of socialist construction, and in the light of the
GOELRO plan, which was designed to lay the economic
foundation of the new society. He wrote that the “New
Economic Policy does not change the single state economic
plan, and does not go beyond its framework, but alters the
approach to its realisation” (present edition, Vol. 35, p. 530).