To Rakovsky

The Kharkov statisticians have approached the manager of the Central Statistical Administration, comrade Popov, with a proposal to enter into relations with the Ukrainian Soviet government on the question of organizing statistics in Ukraine according to the model of the state statistics of the Soviet Republic—Russia. Should you agree, comrade Popov can be delegated to Ukraine for this purpose. I request a telegraphic reply*.

Lenin

Written by an unknown hand, supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin

Written 18 February 1919

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the text,