V. I. Lenin

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

V. AGRICULTURE

17 (4) DECEMBER 1917 — 16 JULY 1918
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AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS ON THE REQUISITION OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS¹

[December 17 (4), 1917]

In the name of the Republic, the Council of People’s Commissars decrees:

1. The Petrograd district and local Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies must immediately requisition all privately-owned warehouses of agricultural machinery and implements, as well as graded and roofing iron, nails and other metal articles needed in peasant households.

2. Information on the requisitioned agricultural machinery and implements and on the extent of the local need for them must be communicated immediately to the Council of People’s Commissars, with a view to their being sent to the Volost Land Committees or the local Peasant Soviets for distribution among the needy peasants, these machines and implements to be used in the first place by the needy peasants. Ownership of the machines remains with the state, and the uyezd Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies, as well as the volost land committees, must administer these machines, most strictly safeguarding the people’s property.

¹ The draft was discussed at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars on December 17 (4), 1917, on the report of P. A. Kozmin (Commissar of the Department for Supplying Agriculture with Implements and Metals). During the preliminary examination, Lenin made pencil amendments to the draft (the draft was printed on

Why only Petrograd?