V. I.

Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Decree on The Organisation of Supply for the Population

e) Co-operative warehouses and shops are not subject to municipalisation. [1]

In places where co-operatives were nationalised or municipalised and
stocks of goods in co-operative stores requisitioned or confiscated by the
local Soviet authorities before publication of this decree, all such
co-operatives shall be re-established, their stocks returned to them, the
missing goods accounted for and no further obstructions raised to their
legitimate activities.

Note:

In restoring the co-operatives measures must be taken to prevent
counter-revolutionary or kulak distortion of their activities and to have
strict and absolute control over them exercised by the Poor Peasants’
Committees and the local

Soviets. [2]

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Notes:
[1]
The text of the adopted decree reads “nationalisation”.— Ed .

[2]
The draft decree on the organisation of supply for the population was
discussed at a meeting of the C.P.C. on November 12, 1918, and finally
endorsed by the C.P.C. on November 21. Lenin’s addenda were included in the
adopted text of the decree, which was published in Izves Ua on November
24.

The question of the co-operatives’ participation in the
organisation of supply for the population as dealt with in the draft decree
with Lenin’s addenda to it, was misunderstood by some of the leading food
supply workers. Lenin clarified this question in a speech delivered at a
meeting of delegates from the Moscow Central Workers’ Co-operative on
November 26, 1918, in a report on the attitude of the proletariat to
petty-bourgeois democrats made at a Moscow Party workers’ meeting on
November 27, and in his reply to the discussion (see present edition,
Vol. 28, pp. 196-200, 213-16, 221-24).

See also present edition, Vol. 35, p. 376, and Vol. 50,
Fifth Russian Edition, Document 378.