Date: 1922
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS, Volume 54

FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b)

Comrade Molotov, for the members of the Politburo, in a circular manner
Krestinsky writes to me that Gorky has left Riga completely penniless and is pinning his hopes on securing an author’s fee from Stomonakov for the publication of his books.

Krestinsky believes it is necessary to include Gorky among those comrades who are receiving treatment abroad at the expense of the Party or the Soviet government. I propose

* This refers to V. I. Lenin’s article “On the Theses on the Agrarian Question of the French Communist Party” (see Collected Works, 5th ed., Volume 44, pp. 274–281). Ed.