BOLSHEVIK CENTER

To systematically monitor the economy and have the possibility to systematically reduce expenses, it is necessary:

1) To prepare monthly reports by categories that are comparable with each other and separate the most essential and least changeable from the most accidental and most reducible (publication of the newspaper from assistance; the apartment of the expedition and printing house expenses from paper prices and typesetters' wages, etc.).

2) Try to compile a rational summary report over a fairly long period (for example, half a year) with the calculation of the average expense for each item. (Diets separately; assistance separately; incidental expenses and light transport should not be mixed; newspaper expenses calculated by items: typesetters - paper - apartment - expeditionary's salary - printing house, etc.). Then, for each item, reductions should be considered not approximately or at a glance, but based on precise assumptions (reduce this and that; buy cheaper paper or rent a cheaper apartment, etc.; reduce expenses on "occasional" and light transport, etc.).

Letter from V. I. Lenin to the Economic Commission of the Bolshevik Center. 1909.
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1909. Months (old style)Σ *Average
per month (rounded)
VIVIIVIIIIX
a Diets256010551930150570501762 b Assistance to comrades359.2553.70208.35653.351774.60444
c National organizations4004756006002075519 d Transport7301064.65161517605169.651292
e Inheritance300265210001135227005675 f Expedition150127058001080.906086.901522
g Honorarium454.566.5077.30103.50701.80175 h Incidental207169.75185.10380941.85235
i Secretariat and mail26.747.70118.15136.20328.7582 j Illegal publications (protocols)17251545--3270817
k Conference2258---2258566 l To Russia5947.554648.75933.406562.7018092.404523
m Repayment of old debts-4012.40-3004312.401078 n Miscellaneous--1000-1000.0250
Total16468.9516608.4528467.3014216.6575761.3518940

−216

24| 36

| 6.66...

* - Summa - sum. Ed.

Approximately:

Possible reductions
?

minimum minimummaximum thousand
a) Expenses for foreign organizations and the newspaper37762.5−3.02.5
b) Assistance to comrades4440.3−0.50.2
c) National organizations5190.2−0.30.1(only Latvians)
d) Transport12920.6−0.80.5
e) Expenses for obtaining Σ and debts6753---
f) Illegal party publications8170.3−0.5-
g) Conferences5660.6−0.60.5
h) To Russia45232.5−3.52.5(only Central Committee, without local)
i) Miscellaneous2500.1−0.2-

189407.1−9.46.3
18940

−6753

12187