V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

AMENDMENT TO THE DECREE
ON THE CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE JOINT-STOCK
COMPANY OF THE BOGOSLOVSK MINING DISTRICT
[December 7 (20), 1917]

In view of the refusal of the Works Management of the Joint-Stock Company of the Bogoslovsk Mining District to submit to the decree of the Council of People’s Commissars on the introduction of workers’ control over production, the Council of People’s Commissars has resolved to confiscate all the property of the Joint-Stock Company of the Bogoslovsk Mining District, of whatever such property may consist, and to declare it the property of the Russian Republic.

All office and technical personnel are obliged to remain at their posts and perform their duties.

For the unauthorised abandonment of their posts or sabotage, the guilty will be handed over to the Revolutionary Court.

[The] procedure for managing the affairs of the company in Petrograd and the conditions for the transfer of individual works, enterprises and branches to the temporary management of the local Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, Factory-Shop Committees and similar institutions will be determined by special regulations of the People’s Commissar for Trade and Industry.

Chairman of the Council
of People’s Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).¹

¹ The decree was approved at the session of the SNK on December 7 (20), 1917. The amendment to the decree was written by Lenin on a separate sheet, below the text of a crossed-out note to him from Ilyin, a member of the liquidation commission of the Military-Revolutionary Committee. The decree was published in *Gazeta Vrem. Rab. i Krest. Pravit.*, No. 27, of December 8 (21), 1917. — Ed.