The Council of People’s Commissars, fully approving and welcoming the idea underlying the project for the establishment of a Socialist Academy, instructs the Commissariat of People’s Education to revise this project on the following bases:

1) – to place in the forefront a publishing society of a Marxist trend;

2) – to attract foreign Marxist forces in especially large numbers;

3) – to set as one of the priority tasks a series of social researches;

4) – immediately to take measures for the ascertainment, collection and utilisation of Russian teaching forces.

Written on May 25, 1918.