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Foreign Affairs about meeting your request.
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If need be,
speak to Gorbunov (I enclose his telephone number) without
hesitation: he is a very good man.
Best regards to the whole family, the children especial-
ly.
Lenin
Written on January 1 8 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
45
TO N. P. GORBUNOV
Comrade N. P. Gorbunov:
Please give a closer reading to Comrade Eiduk’s mate-
rial
42
and have a talk with him,
to try to formulate the practical proposals
together with him.
Tell Comrade Eiduk that I am extremely interested in
this most important matter, and very much regret that I
am unable just now to take it up personally.
But once the practical proposals are there, I shall tackle
it.
2) The Narrow Council business as designated.
Yours,
Lenin
Written on January 1 8 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 5 9
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI
46
TO THE P R A V D A EDITORIAL BOARD
43
I request the Editorial Board to publish Rudzutak’s
theses, which were adopted by the Fifth All-Russia Trade
Union Conference held from November 2 to 6, 1920; they
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See previous document.—Ed.
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TO WORKERS, ARTISANS, OFFICE WORKERS. JANUARY 20, 1921
are extremely necessary as material for discussion. I also
append material on the debate which has started in Party
circles concerning the origin of these theses.
N. Lenin
Written on January 1 8 , 1 9 2 1
Published on January 2 1 , 1 9 2 1
Printed from
in Pravda No. 1 3
the newspaper text
47
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TO THE WORKERS, ARTISANS, OFFICE WORKERS,
AND COMMUNIST PARTY CELL OF PROLETARSKAYA
STATION, VLADIKAVKAZ RAILWAY
20.I.1921
Dear Comrades:
From the comrades you have sent, Lavrik, Malikov and
Bykov, I learned with great satisfaction how you organised
the dispatch of a gift to the working people of the city of
Moscow. In accordance with the mandate of your general
meeting, I received from your delegates Invoice No. 243
covering the cargo you dispatched: 2,002 poods of wheat,
1,869 poods 29 pounds of barley and 35 poods of flour, and
also a detailed written report about how you carried out
the procurement of salt by doing free overtime work, about
your voluntary stints without pay on holidays in general,
and about your cultural and educational work.
Instructions have been issued to have the cargo, delayed
en route through no fault of the comrades you have sent,
delivered to the People’s Commissariat for Food, and all
the foodstuffs you have sent will be handed over to the
workers of the city of Moscow.
I advise you to give more attention to cultural and edu-
cational work and the schools. I hope that through a con-
certed effort you will succeed in eliminating all the difficul-
ties which arise.
I was especially interested in the communist farming
you have introduced. One of the most important tasks
now facing the Republic is the development and boosting
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of agriculture. I was happy to hear your report that this
year you will be able to develop 2,200 dessiatines as plough-
land, and 25 dessiatines as vegetable garden. You must
see to it that your agriculture is organised on the right
lines, as agronomic science requires, and I advise you to
get a knowledgeable agronomist for that purpose.
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My special request to you is that your work in the com-
mune should be so organised as to
help peasants in the
vicinity and maintain the best relations with them. Without
this and without business-like practical economic success
I have little faith in the communes, and am even somewhat
apprehensive of them.
I send you all my comradely greetings.
V. Ulyanov (
Lenin)
I am very sorry that I was unable to see them personally
and had to ask Comrade N. P. Gorbunov to do so.
First published on January 2 1 , 1 9 2 7
Printed from a typewritten
in the newspaper Molot No. 1 6 4 1
text with Lenin’s additions
(Rostov-on-Don)
and signature
48
TO N. P. GORBUNOV
Comrade Gorbunov:
A decision was adopted today to have you see to the
execution of C.P.C. decisions.
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This business must be organised on the correct lines:
you must always have a file or list of decisions which have
not been carried out or require constant supervision (over
execution).
25/I.
Lenin
Written on January 2 5 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
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The following text is in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.