V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on The Chief Committee for Political Education [1]

The exact wording of the resolution of the Central
Executive Committee speaks of “unification of all work of political
education in the

R.S.F.S.R. [2]

While definitely recognising the need for such unification, the
Politbureau of the C.C.,R.C.P.(B.) establishes, first of all, that this
unification can only be understood in the sense of preserving,
strengthening and extending not only the independence of the Party
organisation but its leading, guiding and preponderant position in regard
to all fields of work without exception under the auspices of the People’s
Commissariat for Education.

The implementation of the C.E.C.’s resolution should he divided into
two parts: a motion should be tabled immediately in the Council of People’s
Commissars for the unification of the institutions exactly enumerated in
the resolution of the C.E.C.

This motion to be drafted not later than tomorrow, 29,X., by two
members of the C.C.—Bukharin and Preobrazhensky.

The latter part of the task will cover: further unification of all
parallel bodies of an educational nature in all the people’s commissariats
and elaboration of the organisational relations between the agitation and
propaganda bodies of the R.C.P. and the educational bodies of the
Commissariat for Education which are subordinate to them.

A report on this latter part, giving an accurate list of all parallel
bodies in all the commissariats, is to be submitted to the Politbureau by
Comrades Preobrazhensky and Bukharin.