Draft
The Politburo directs all economic bodies that, following the Party Conference in December 1921 and the Ninth Congress of Soviets, the New Economic Policy has now been established with sufficient firmness and clarity.
It is therefore imperative to devote every possible effort to testing it in practice as quickly and extensively as possible. All general discussions, theoretical speculations, and verbal debates on the subject of the New Economic Policy must be relegated to discussion clubs—and, in part, to the press. From the Sovnarkom, the Council of Labor and Defense, and all economic bodies, such activities must be ruthlessly purged. All commissions should be reduced to an absolute minimum, replacing commission-based work with a requirement for written amendments or counter‑drafts from all concerned departments within the shortest possible time—1–2 days. The Supreme Economic Commission should be transformed into an organ devoted exclusively to codifying and consolidating economic governmental acts, eliminating, wherever feasible, all so‑called “commission‑based deliberations.” The Supreme Economic Commission must accelerate, rather than retard, the overall pace of work.
The Politburo calls upon the People’s Commissariat of Finance to concentrate all its efforts on rapidly increasing the number of taxes and on boosting revenue from tax collections, while also undertaking practical, business‑oriented revisions to the general budget. All discussions concerning monetary policy, the substitution of cash taxes for the tax in kind, and the like—

DRAFT DIRECTIVE OF THE POLITBURO ON THE NEP
should be transferred, in part to discussion clubs and in part to the press.
The Politburo demands of all People’s Commissars an absolute maximum of speed, energy, and the elimination of bureaucracy and red tape in the practical implementation of the New Economic Policy; it also demands that, as far as possible, responsible officials be rewarded with bonuses for their contributions to accelerating and expanding production and trade—both domestic and foreign. This requirement applies first and foremost to the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade, then to the State Bank (especially its Trade Department), to the Central Cooperative Union, and to the Supreme Council of National Economy.
After adoption by the Politburo, all members of the collegia of the People’s Commissariats and all members of the Presidium of the VTsIK should be notified in writing, with acknowledgment of receipt.
Written between January 9 and 12, 1922.
First published in 1942 in Lenin Collection XXXIV.

Printed from manuscript and typewritten copy.