Date: 1918-07-02
Source: ru:LS/v21
Source: LS/v21 vol XXI

ON THE PROVISION OF PEASANTS WITH AGRICULTURAL MACHINES

Agriculture and the Commissariat of Food), which will eliminate the possibility of the omissions that occurred earlier. I would not decide the question of revision now, postponing it until I provide a report.
VI.
LENIN'S NOTE.
To Tsyrupa.
X com\ ?
XX Has it been appointed?
Who? When? By whom?
Why not appoint this trio here immediately?
VII.
TSYRUPA'S RESPONSE.
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The Head of the Commodity Exchange Department in the presence of a member of the Collegium of the Commissariat of Agriculture. I appoint Kogan, the head of the Machine Supply Department of the Commissariat of Food. It can be appointed here, but it will be just a paper. The same trio I am talking about will include those directly interested in the success of the matter.
1 At the meeting of the SNK on June 12, 1918, P. A. Kozmin's report on the establishment of the Fund for Financing Agricultural Machinery was discussed. During the discussion, a number of negative aspects in the work of the Agricultural Machinery Department at the VSNKh were revealed, which necessitated the appointment by the SNK of a commission "to study the state of affairs and clarify the issues that arose during the discussion."
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ON THE PROVISION OF PEASANTS WITH AGRICULTURAL MACHINES.
DECISION OF THE SNK.
[July 2, 1918]
To create a commission consisting of representatives from the Commissariat of Agriculture, the Agricultural Machinery Department at the VSNKh, and the Commissariat of Food (inviting Comrade Kozmin with a consultative vote) to address the issue of practical measures to assist peasants in providing them with agricultural machinery. The Commission is instructed to convene tomorrow morning (July 3rd), and to immediately enter into communication with the arriving