V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. [1]

The Council of People’s Commissars reprimands the
Commissariat for Public Education for its insufficient attention to library
organisation in Russia, and direct the Commissariat to take immediate and energetic measures, first, to
centralise the library business in Russia, second, to introduce the
Swiss-American system.

The Commissariat for Public Education is instructed to report to the
C.P.C. twice a month on its practical steps in this field.

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Notes:
[1]
This draft decision was adopted the same day it was written. Lenin’s
letters, speeches, articles and notes, as well as his draft decisions for
the C.P.C. and other documents relating to library organisation, have been
collected in N. K. Krupskaya’s book, Chto pisal i govoril Lenin o bibliotekakh (What Lenin Wrote and Said About Libraries), Moscow,
1956.