Regarding the purging of the Party, I shall transmit your views to the Central Commission for Party Purges. In my opinion, the first serious experience of purging the Party will give us a series of practical directives, which we shall subsequently use for elaborating the conditions of admission. When you have gathered sufficient material, send your views in a letter. Everything you have communicated regarding the conditions of economic work will be discussed by me in connection with all the materials available here. The question of your recall from Siberia will, apparently, be postponed until the completion of the work on Party purges.

Written August 30, 1921

Sent to Novonikolaevsk

First published in 1924

*Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 3

Printed from the typewritten text

Lenin

in the journal