V. I. Lenin

Draft Decision Of The Central Committee Of The Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

All organisations of the R.C.P. shall within one week of publication of the present decision of the Central Committee of the R.C.P. enter on all membership and registration cards the date on which the respective members joined the Bolshevik Party.

In the absence of this information, and if it is impossible to obtain (and to have it verified and signed by not less than three members of the R.C.P. of two years’ standing and over), such membership or registration cards shall be marked: “Date of joining the Party unknown.”

Every member of the R.C.P. holding any Soviet post must immediately make a brief entry into his membership card stating what parties he belonged to, or was associated with, over the past five years, the entry to be certified by the chairman or secretary of his Party organisation.