Written: Written in May, before the 14th, 1921
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 144b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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I fully support Osinsky’s draft and request you to prepare your opinion for the Politbureau on Saturday, so as to have it go through the C.P.C. on Tuesday, and through the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on Wednesday.[1]
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
[1] A reference to the draft decision of the All-Russia C.E.C. prepared by N. Osinsky on extending the rights of the peasant committees in improving the agricultural production (village committees) set up under the Village Soviets.
On May 14, 1921, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee invited the People’s Commissars to send in their opinion of the draft for its discussion by the C.P.C. On May 19, it was passed by the C.P.C. with some amendments. On May 27, the decree was approved by the All-Russia C.E.C. and published in Izvestia VTsIK No. 115 on May 28, 1921.
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