V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) 80

1) The proposal of Comrades Spiridonova and Karelin is that the Bolsheviks should hand over the Commissariat of Agriculture to the full and actual control of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, retaining for the Bolsheviks only political representation.

2) The grounds for this proposal are that, in the opinion of Comrades Spiridonova and Karelin, the Commissariat of Agriculture is falling to pieces, work for the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries is becoming impossible, they will be compelled to leave altogether, because they are allegedly being “squeezed out”, etc.

3) The conference (of Lenin with the Bolsheviks from the Board of Agriculture) refers the decision of the question raised by the Socialist-Revolutionaries to the Central Committee of the Party. For its part, the conference considers the arguments of the Socialist-Revolutionaries unfounded and their proposal unacceptable.