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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. M. LYUBOVICH. NOVEMBER 17, 1920
This has been taken over for a state farm, the land is
lying waste, millions are said to be taken from the treasury,
no more than 5 dessiatines ploughed up in 1920. Ten (out of
about 100) horses and 30-40 (out of 200) cows remain. No
one is working hard. The furniture has been pilfered, etc.
The peasants in the neighbourhood are very much in need
of land and are highly disgruntled at not being given
either meadow or land.
(Nikolai Semyonovich Bodyakov, Silkovo Volost, the vil-
lage of Filipkovo, Mosalsk Uyezd, Kaluga Gubernia.)
I request Comrades Bryukhanov and Sereda to order a
report and to let me have it, within two days, at the latest.
Can these needs be met? Or is there some obstacle?
11
Lenin
First published in 1 9 4 2
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
11
TO V. A. AVANESOV
Comrade Avanesov,
Comrade Chutskayev has agreed, by way of exception,
to issue here 36 million bank-notes (of those appropriated)
for the People’s Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs to
the Nizhni-Novgorod Radio Laboratory.
*
I request you to give permission, because I believe this
is a very important and urgent matter.
If you object, phone me at once.
17/XI.
Lenin
Written on November 1 7 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
12
*
TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. M. LYUBOVICH
I am extremely surprised and indignant over the fact
that, despite our telephone conversation of yesterday, you
have failed to place before the Council of Labour and
*
See also present edition, Vol. 35, Documents 236, 264; Vol. 44,
Documents 519, 520, and the present volume, Document 132.—
Ed.
V. I. L E N I N
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Defence, on 17/XI, the question of the Nizhni-Novgorod
radio station.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
Written on November 1 7 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from a text written
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
in Maria Glyasser’s hand
and signed by Lenin
13
TO G. V. CHICHERIN
Comrade Chicherin,
The news from Britain, especially from Krasin (and
extracts from the newspapers), and particularly the news
that America will at once join (a trade agreement between
Russia and Britain) raises the urgent and extremely impor-
tant issue of a trade agreement with Britain.
12
If it is a question of peace or war,
*
it should be tied in
with Batum and Georgia.
13
Then, on the question of debts, we should be absolutely
sure that we are not made to pay.
If there is a trade agreement who will have the right to
sign the final text? Krasin alone? or the Council of People’s
Commissars?
This question must be urgently worked out in all its
aspects.
With
communist greetings,
19/XI.
Lenin
Written on November 1 9 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 5 9
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI
14
ASSIGNMENTS TO SECRETARY
14
1
Request a report from the Supreme Economic Council
on the electrification of Yaropolets Volost (or Yaropolets
District), Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia.
15
*
In the original the last three words are in English.—
Ed.
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TO A. M. ANIKST. NOVEMBER 20, 1920
Copper is the main thing.
Engineer Ringo, who is in charge of the Moscow Guber-
nia Electrical Department, favours the starting of local
electrical fittings factories (for instance, Vishnyakov’s and
Shamshin’s in Moscow), with the raw materials, incidental-
ly, available at the warehouse in Raiovo (artillery depot
of Moscow Gubernia, nine versts away from Moscow: mil-
lions of poods of copper brought together from various parts,
especially Poland during the war).
(Find out about Ringo)
(1) assist electrification
(2) public education
(3) flax growing.
2
Keep secret, and give me a reminder when Kirillin from
Yaropolets (Volokolamsk Uyezd) comes to see me.
Written: 1 st—November 1 9 , 1 9 2 0 ,
2 nd—November 2 0 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
15
TO A. M. ANIKST
20/XI-20
Comrade Anikst,
Please arrange for tomorrow a conference with represen-
tatives of:
Working-garments supply organisation
Central Coal Administration
and Chuso
*
and Central Garments Administration to
investigate (in accordance with Comrade Trotsky’s telegram
No. 69/5 of 20/XI-20) the reasons why the Council of
Labour and Defence decision on supply to Donbas
16
has not
been fulfilled, and to take urgent measures for the earliest
fulfilment of the assignment.
17
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
First published in 1 9 4 2
Printed from
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV
a typewritten copy
*
Chusosnabarm—Extraordinary Representative of the Council of
Defence for Red Army and Navy Supplies.—
Ed.