Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

48

To: N. P. GORBUNOV

Written: Written on January 25, 1921
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 74^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Gorbunov:

A decision was adopted today to have you see to the execution of C.P.C. decisions.^[1]

This business must be organised on the correct lines: you must always have a file or list of decisions which have not been carried outor require constant supervision (over execution).

25/1.

Lenin

Notes

[1] The Council of People’s Commissars decided: “To authorise Comrade Gorbunov to establish thorough supervision over the fulfilment of C.P.C. decisions, especially those not specifying dates of execution” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).