V. I. Lenin

II

Directives For The Commission

The Commission is to be instructed:

1)	to make a detailed examination of the Rules of the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences for submission to the Council of People’s Commissars and then to the C.E.C.;

2) to begin immediately an exchange of opinions on this question, and also on the question of membership, with non-Russian and foreign Marxists;

3) to compile and discuss a list of suitable and willing candidates as foundation members, and as teachers, for submission of this list to the Council of People’s Commissars and the C.E.C. [1]

Endnotes

[1] Lists of Members of the Socialist Academy of Social
Sciences and teachers at the Academy, which had been approved by the All-Russia C.E.C., were
published on August 9, 1918, in the newspaper Izvestia VTsIK No. 169.

On February 5, 1922, Lenin was elected a member of the Social-ist Acadoiny. When he was informed
of his election by the Pre-sidium of the Academy, Lenin replied with the following note:
“I ant very grateful. Unforttinately, I am not well enough to be able to perform even the
smallest fraction of the duties of a member of the Socialist Academy. I do not want to be a
fictitious member. I therefore request you to remove my name from the list of members or not to
include it in the list” ( Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 432).