V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. [1]

I propose that this be approved by telephone with this addition: an assignment to buy the greatest possible
quantities of wheat and rice.

5/VII.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written on a memo to the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee from
Deputy People’s Commissar for Food N. P. Bryukhanov and

Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade A. M. Lezhava,
reporting the possibility of purchasing 5 million poods of wheat in
North-Eastern Persia, and requesting the allocation of 4 million
silver rubles for that purpose. On July 6, 1921, this was approved
by the Politbureau.

On July 18, the Narrow C.P.C. appropriated 4 million rubles
for the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade.