To Comrades K. Ukhanov and N. Borisov

17/VII.

Dear Comrades!

I thank you very much for sending the book[51] and for your friendly letter. I read the book with interest. Undoubtedly, it will be of significance for the history of the organisation of Soviet power.

I am sending you a copy of the just-published law on the district economic councils and the "Instruction". I hope you will in advance enlist a statistician, give him material, inspect his work, supplement it yourselves (and with sketches from some other local Rogozhsko-Simonovsky comrades, if volunteers are found) and print in the autumn a report on the content and results of the local economic work of your district soviet. I hope that your initiative will be shown here and that your district will prove to be among the first in the matter of developing local economic construction.

Once again I thank you and send communist greetings.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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Written on 17 July 1921

First published in 1932

in the Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript