V. I.

Lenin

6/XI.1920

To Members of the C.C., R.C.P.

Please consider and carry through at the plenum on 8.XI. a resolution
that the report at the Congress of Soviets on 20/XII.2O on the second item
of the agenda, namely, "The Basic Tasks of Economic Rehabilitation” be
made by the Chairman of GOELRO (the State Commission for the
Electrification of Russia), G. M.

Krzhizhanovsky. [1]

We shall achieve effective implementation of the general plan of
economic rehabilitation, which plan, without electrification, is nothing,
and talk about “basic tasks” unrelated to this plan would not be serious.

For your preliminary information I enclose:

1) A copy of Krzhizhanovsky’s memorandum “ Results of the Work of the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia ”.

2) The booklet Basis of Northern Region Electrification
Project, of which 3 copies for Trotsky, Rykov and Bukharin I can obtain
tomorrow; the rest of the C.C. members should call up the switchboard, 2nd
floor, if they wish to have copies.

3) Some electrification maps.

4) Proofs of the article: “Volga Area Electrification Plan”

1 copy to Comrade Trotsky to be handed to Comrade Rykov and then to the
remaining C.C. members

5) Stunkel’s theses.

6) Krug’s theses.

7) List of GOELRO material (over 200 works).

The sum of these documents shows clearly that we are fully able (by
timely correction of the theses and plan of Krzhizhanovsky’s report
submitted on behalf of the C.C.) to get at the Congress of Soviets exactly
what the Party and the country need, namely, a report on the “Basic Tasks
of Economic Rehabilitation", which is both business-like and which sets
forth the plan of work in a broad and attractive manner.

V. Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
At the plenary meeting of the C.C. on November 9, 1920,
G. M. Krzhizhanovsky was instructed to prepare for the Eighth All-Russia
Congress of Soviets a report, “On the Electrification of Russia”. At the
Congress of Soviets hold in Moscow from December 22 to 29, 1920, this
report, on the proposal of the presiding committee, was included in the
agenda of the congress.