DRAFT DECLARATION TO THE C! PARTY from the duties of People's Commissar was made by him on March 18, 1918, after which the appointment of S. P. Sereda took place.

Refers to the negotiations of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture with a representative of Denmark on the purchase of vegetable seeds in Denmark.
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DRAFT DECLARATION TO THE C! PARTY 1.
[May 2-3, 1918]
1) The proposal of Comrades Spiridonova and Karelin consists
in the fact that the Bolsheviks would give the Commissariat of Agricul-
ture into the complete Factual possession of the Left Socialist-
Revolutionaries, while retaining for the Bolsheviks only
political representation.
2)
The basis for such a proposal is the fact that, in the opinion of Comrade
Comrades
Spiridonova] and
Karelin, the Commissariat of
Agriculture is falling apart, work for the Left Socialist]-
Revolutionaries is becoming impossible, they will be forced to
leave altogether, because they are supposedly being "knocked out," etc.
3)
The meeting (Lenin with Bolsheviks from the collegium of Agriculture)
transfers the resolution of the issue raised by the SRs to the C.C. of the Party. For
its part, the meeting considers the SRs' considerations unfounded
and their proposal unacceptable2.
V.I. Meshcheryakov
S. Sereda
N. Petrovsky.
1 This declaration, on Lenin's initiative, was adopted at a meeting
of the Bolshevik faction of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, in connection with the claims of the left
SRs "to complete, Factual possession of the Commissariat of Agriculture."
These claims were caused by new appointments of Bolsheviks to the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (S. P. Sereda, N. I.
Petrovsky, V. N. Meshcheryakov, V. N. Kharlov, etc.) after the departure of A. L. Kolegaev from
the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, which significantly weakened the positions of the left SRs in the Commissariat of Agriculture. The Central
Committee of the RCP(b) rejected the claims of the left SRs
at its meeting on May 3, 1918: the leadership of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture was concentrated in the hands of
the Bolsheviks. After the liquidation of the Left SR rebellion, the People's Commissariat of Agriculture was
finally purged of the Left SRs.
8 The text of the 3rd paragraph of the declaration was written by V. I. Meshcheryakov.