V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Preliminary Conference on The Leadership of the Commissariat for Agriculture [1]

The preliminary conference (on questions raised by Comrades
Spiridonova and Karelin) of members of the, Agricultural Board, Comrades
Sereda and Meshcheryakov, and Lenin, have come to the conclusion that the
questions raised must be regarded as serious political issues and should
therefore be dealt with by the Central Committee of the Russian Communist
Party.

The conference considers it necessary that these questions be put
before the C.C. urgently and without delay.

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Notes:
[1]
This document was written by Lenin in connection with the question,
raised by the leaders of the Left S.R.s M. A. Spiridonova and
V. A. Karelin, that control of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture be
handed over completely to the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, with the
Bolsheviks retaining merely political representation. See also Lenin’s