AGAINST THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY DICTATORSHIP.
[May 8, 1918]
Revise the draft resolution in the following way:
1) Remove references to the international situation;
2) Insert that after peace with Ukraine, we will have barely enough bread to avoid starvation;
3) Insert that the dictator's decrees are reviewed by his board, which has the right, without delaying execution, to appeal to the S.N.K.
4) — that decrees related in their nature to the departments of [Rail] [Transport] and V.S.N.Kh., are adopted after consultation with the respective departments.
5) Formulate the new rights of the [Commiss]ar of Provisions more precisely in legal terms;
6) Emphasize more strongly the basic idea of the need, to save us from starvation, to wage and carry out a merciless and terroristic struggle and war against the peasant and petty bourgeoisie, who are hoarding surplus grain;
7) Define more precisely that owners of grain who have surplus grain and do not transport it to stations and collection and storage points are declared enemies of the people and are subject to imprisonment for a term of not less than 10 years, confiscation of all property, and banishment forever from their community;
8) Add a provision about the duty of the working, propertyless, and non-surplus-holding peasants to unite for a merciless struggle against the kulaks;
[9) Accurately define the relationship of the delegate committees1 to the gubernia food committees and the rights and obligations of the former in conducting food work.]
Shortly before the October Revolution, delegate commissions ("delegate committees") were formed at the local food committees, made up of delegates from military units and consuming regions. The work of the "delegate committees" was headed until the October Revolution by the food commission of the Military Department of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet of W. and S. D. (first convocation). After the October Revolution, in December, the commission renamed itself the All-Russian Military-Food Commission and the Central Delegate Committee.
NOTES AT THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS ON MAY 8, 1918
The notes printed below correspond to the materials presented in the report of the People's Commissar for Food A. D. Tsiurupa on the state of food affairs in the country at the meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on May 9. The day before, this report had been heard at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars.
The data given in Lenin's notes differ from the figures in A. D. Tsiurupa's report in units, but this is explained either by the fact that the figures in A. D. Tsiurupa's report were subsequently clarified, or Lenin, while writing, rounded off the figures (see "Protocols of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the 4th Convocation," pp. 242, 244. Giz, 1920).