V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW35; ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Gleb Maximilianovich!

Your communication about peat has greatly interested me.

Could you write an article on this subject for *Economic Life* (and later issue it as a pamphlet or in a journal)?[^101]

It is necessary to discuss the question in the press.

Here we have peat deposits—thousands of millions.

Their calorific value.

Their location—near Moscow; the Moscow Region.

Near Petrograd—more precisely.

The ease of extracting it (as compared with coal, shale, etc.).

The employment of local workers and peasants (even if only for 4 hours a day to begin with).

Here we have a basis for electrification so many times greater than at the present electric stations.

Here we have the speediest and most reliable basis for the restoration of industry;—
—the socialist organisation of labour (agriculture + industry);
—a way out of the fuel crisis (we shall release so many million cubic feet of timber for transport).

Give the conclusions of your report;—append a peat map;—brief summary calculations. The possibility of building peat machines quickly, etc., etc. A brief summary of the economic programme.

It is necessary to get the question into the press immediately.

26/XII.   Yours, Lenin

P.S. If necessary, rope in Vinter, but let us have the article quickly.

[^101] *Economic Life* (*Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn*)—a newspaper published in Moscow from 1918 to 1937; from 1918 to 1921 it was the organ of the Economic Council and the People’s Commissariats of Finance, Food, and Agriculture; from 1921 it was the organ of the Council of Labour and Defence, the People’s Commissariats of Finance, and the State Bank.