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TO THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION
OF THE LEATHER INDUSTRY UNDER
THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL
To Glavkozha
Please inform me at once about your conclusion on
Baryshnikov’s invention of a sole leather substitute, and what
you are doing about it if you have found the invention
useful.
5
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
Written on November 1 2 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 2
Printed from
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
a typewritten copy
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*
TO THE INVENTIONS SECTION
OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
OF THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Please answer the following questions:
1. How many claims to inventions have been examined
since the section has been set up, and how many are out-
standing at present?
2. How many 1) have been recognised as useful, 2) ap-
plied in practice (list the major ones)?
3. What is the order and time allotted to the examina-
tion of every invention and the further dispatch of the
claim?
4. Is it possible for any institution to put through an
invention without the conclusion of the Inventions Section
of the Scientific and Technical Department?
5. Does the Inventions Section of the Scientific and Tech-
nical Department know about
*
Here and elsewhere such an asterisk denotes headings given
in the original.—
Ed.
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TO A. M. ANIKST. NOVEMBER 15, 1920
a) the invention of a sole leather substitute made by
Baryshnikov; if yes, what has been done about it,
b) the invention
*
Who is at the head of the Inventions Section?
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Lenin
13/XI-20
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from a typewritten
in Collected Works,
copy
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
8
TO THE R.C.P.(
B.)
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
I have accepted almost all of N. K.’s
**
corrections and
suggest another one: an addition on
combining political
and scientific educational work. Zinoviev’s draft can be
adopted with these corrections and additions.
7
Lenin
Written on November 1 4 , 1 9 2 0
First published in part
in 1 9 5 8 in the magazine
Voprosy Istorii KPSS No. 1
(Questions of CPSU History)
Published in full in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
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TO A. M. ANIKST
Comrade Anikst
In view of the statement by Comrade Korolyov, Chair-
man of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Executive Commit-
tee, concerning the non-fulfilment of the C.L.D. decision
of 5-X-20,
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and in view of the extreme importance of the
uninterrupted running of the textile mills in Ivanovo-
Voznesensk Gubernia, which in six months can produce
?.88 million 60-arshin piece-goods, i.e., 172.8 million
arshins—I hereby instruct you to organise not later than
*
An apparent omission in the typewritten copy.—Ed.
**
Nadezhda Krupskaya.—Ed.
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tomorrow, 16-XI-20, under your chairmanship, a conference
consisting of Comrade Korolyov and representatives:
on matters from the People’s Commissariat for Food
relating
Central Fuel Administration
to each
Central Oil Administration
department
Central Peat Administration
respectively
People’s Commissariat for Defence
People’s Commissariat for Finance
People’s Commissariat for Railways
on the various questions raised by the Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Gubernia Executive Committee, to work out precise deci-
sions and to submit them to me for signature or to the
C.L.D. at 6.00 p.m. sharp on Wednesday, 17-XI-20.
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15.XI.20
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
First published in 1 9 3 3
Printed from
in the book, A. M. Anikst,
a typewritten copy
Vospominaniya
o Vladimire Ilyiche
(Reminiscences of Vladimir Ilyich),
Moscow
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S. P. SEREDA AND N. P. BRYUKEIANOV
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16.XI.1920
From Mosalsk Uyezd, Kaluga Gubernia.
1) At first requisition is said to have been in live cattle—
this caused extreme dissatisfaction among the peasants. It
was even said that they “were being robbed”.
Later (in X. 1920) the requisition is said to have been
switched from live cattle to meat (13 pounds per cow, 26
pounds per pig, 7 pounds per sheep, etc.). The peasants
were highly satisfied with this change.
The requisition is now said to be again in live cattle:
there is again dissatisfaction and bitterness among the
peasants.
2) The former Baryatinsky estate (later owned by a Ger-
man, something like Schalart) in Silkovo Volost, probably
more than 1,000 dessiatines.