V. I. Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on Supplying the Peasants with Agricultural Machines {1}

A commission to be set up of representatives of the
Commissariat for Agriculture, the Agricultural Machine Department of the
S.E.C. and the Commissariat for Food (Comrade Kozmin to be invited with a
consultative voice) to consider measures of practical assistance to the
peasants in the matter of supplying them with agricultural machines. The
commission is to meet tomorrow morning (July 3) and the same day it is to
get in touch with the delegates arriving to the Fifth

Congress. {2} Comrade Kharlov is charged with calling the commission
and reporting to the Council of People’s Commissars. Comrade Sereda to
check fulfilment.

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Notes:
{1}
On July 2, 1918, the C.P.C. heard an out-of-order statement by Lenin
concerning “the need for meeting the peasants’ requirements in
agricultural machines” and adopted this draft decision in this connection
(Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. of
the C.P.S.U.).

{2}
This refers to the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets (held in Moscow
July 4-10, 1918).