Notes on the Question of Fixed Prices for Bread
ЗАМЕТКИ ПО ВОПРОСУ О ТВЕРДЫХ ЦЕНАХ НА ХЛЕБ
Date: 1918-05-10
Source: PSS vol 54
Translated by: AI (Claude)

The foreign policy of Soviet power must in no way be changed.

We are still threatened in the most real way – and at the present moment more strongly and closely than yesterday – by the movement of Japanese troops with the aim of diverting German troops through an advance deep into European Russia, and on the other hand, by the movement of German troops against Petrograd and Moscow in case of victory of the German military party. We must as before respond to these dangers with the tactics of retreat, waiting and maneuvering, continuing the most intensive military preparation.

Along with this it should be recognized that the Russian bourgeoisie uses the instrument of sowing panic with extreme impudence and that our agitation, directed toward tightening discipline and intensified military preparation, must not cross that line where we ourselves contribute to panic (which is noticeable in the unstable political pronouncements of some comrades, sometimes playing at "leftism").

NOTES ON THE QUESTION
OF FIXED PRICES FOR BREAD

Written May 10, 1918
First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI
Printed from the manuscript