V. I. L E N I N
56
16
TO THE NARROW COUNCIL
OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS
18
To the Narrow Council
I think an article (or footnote) should be added:
the rules stated in § 4 must be worked out within a stated
(brief) period and reported to the Narrow Council.
NB:
NB:
(1) Fundamentals of political
must be included
knowledge
in the syllabus.
(2) and communist propaganda
What control.
Lenin
Written in November,
not before the 2 0 th, 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
17
TO THE STATE PUBLISHERS
Please publish without fail by the deadline and notify
me at once.
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26/XI. Lenin
Written on November 2 6 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
18
TO G. V. CHICHERIN
Comrade Chicherin:
The underscored is absolutely intolerable.
2 0
The People’s
Commissar is duty bound precisely to carry out the C.P.C.
decision winding up the Groman commission. You failed
to protest the decision in the C.C., the decision of 7.IX,
and are inventing some kind of “friction” (where? whose?
why talk of “friction”, when there is a mandatory decision?
P
M
Q
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TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY. NOVEMBER 29, 1920
You yourself are creating it). How the People’s Commis-
sariat for Foreign Affairs can hope to “get it going” con-
trary to the Council of People’s Commissars is inconceiv-
able. This is chaos and disorganisation. You are the one
who is impeding the C.P.C decisions, and that is absolutely
intolerable.
29/XI. Lenin
Written on November 2 9 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
19
TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY
Copies to Comrades Litkens, Solovyov, Krestinsky
29/XI.
Comrade Lunacharsky:
Comrade Litkens and I had a detailed talk yesterday.
I find his and Comrade Solovyov’s drafts artificial.
21
Naturally, the C.C. will decide. My own preliminary
considerations are as follows:
1) Set up the office of Assistant People’s Commissar to
handle all the administrative side.
2) Turn the “organisational sector” into an “organisa-
tional centre” (with a member of the collegium in charge).
This centre is to handle the administrative, organisational,
supply and other sides of all the sectors.
3) Eliminate Glavprofobr
*
, merging it with the secon-
dary schools,
provided: (
α) general knowledge and political
subjects are extended in the secondary schools and (
β) the
switch from trade and technical to polytechnical education
is, as far as possible, ensured.
4) Revive the “G.U.S.” (State Academic Council) and
regulate it as an organ for discussion of all scientific and
pedagogical matters.
*
The Central Administration for Vocational Training under the
People’s Commissariat for Education.—
Ed.
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Composition=all members of the collegium&the
best
specialists, even if bourgeois.
5) Set up the following sectors: (1) pre-school; (2) primary
school; (3) secondary school (= Glavprofobr); (4) extra-
mural (= Chief Committee for Political Education);
(5) higher school; (6) art.
6) Leave the art sector as a single one, appointing
“political commissars” from among the Communists to all
central and governing bodies in the sector.
29/XI. Lenin
Written on November 2 9 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
20
TO S. Y. CHUTSKAYEV
Comrade Chutskayev
Commission for Abolishing Cash Taxes
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More thought must be given to the conditions of the
transition epoch (and the relevant
facts studied in greater
detail).
There is no doubt about switching from money to the
exchange of products without money.
To make the switch a success, there must be an exchange
of products (not exchange of commodities).
So long as we are unable to carry on the exchange of
commodities, i.e., to give the peasants industrial products,
the peasantry has to make do with the remnants of com-
modity (and consequently of money) circulation, with a
substitute for it.
It is economically wrong to abolish the substitute (money)
before the peasantry has been given that which eliminates
the need of a substitute.
This must be given very serious thought.
30/XI.
Lenin
Written on November 3 0 , 1 9 2 0
First published in 1 9 2 4
Printed from
in the magazine
a typewritten copy
Vestnik Finansov No. 1