The purpose of the meeting of these groups: to outline the main points and themes of the revision, the number and composition of the revision teams, the form of mandates from the Council of Defense and the State Control, and a specific program for the revision (exposure of abuses and immediate elimination of observed deficiencies in work, organizational shortcomings, and general plans for reform). In further work, on organizational matters, invite representatives of the relevant departments to the meeting, but do not invite them on matters of revision.

Chairman of the Commission: V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
Secretary: L. Fotieva.

* ON URGENT MEASURES TO IMPROVE FOOD SUPPLY.1
[December 11, 1918]
a) Entrust Comrade Nevsky with taking the most urgent measures to increase the carrying capacity of the Astrakhan railway.
b) Entrust Comrade Bryukhanov to present by Sunday * the most accurate information on the quantity of grain on the railways and in elevators, and if possible, also at other storage points.
c) Entrust Comrade Nevsky with preparing the issue of creating groups of engineers, railway workers, and workers in general to work on increasing the carrying capacity of the railways.

Resolution adopted at the Sovnarkom meeting on December 11, 1918, based on Lenin's report (Sovnarkom protocol No. 43, archive I. L. No. 14509).
Notes on grain reserves and the situation with its transportation were likely made during a conversation with the authorized representative of the Northern Railways, Verlsky. According to Lenin's note "today to the Council of Defense," N. L. Bryukhanov reported on the same day, December 25, 1918, at the meeting of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense—on 41/2 million poods of grain in Samara province; based on the report, the resolution printed below was adopted. The notes are published * — December 15. Ed.

from the manuscript. Resolution—based on the protocol of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense No. 8, archive I. L. No. 44528.
Later, in a speech at the joint session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Moscow Soviet on January 17, 1919, Lenin spoke about how "the last desperate crisis in Petrograd is explained by the fact that our reserves are standing on the Volga-Bugulma railway and it is impossible to transport them out" (Collected Works, vol. XXIII, p. 474).

NOTES ON GRAIN RESERVES.
December 25, 1918.
Comrade Verlsky, (from Melikese)
authorized representative of the Northern Railways it is still possible to store so much as
V/2 million poods of grain at the Melikese-Bugulma station
elevators and storage points are full of which 150 thousand are beyond Bugulma, in the front-line zone.
60 wagons are needed daily (5-6 are provided and they reach the army)
Today to the Council of Defense
The road is not congested.
Transportation is free for 1-2 trains.

RESOLUTION OF THE SOVNARKOM ON 1!/2 MILLION PUDS OF GRAIN IN SAMARA PROVINCE.
December 25, 1918.
a) Entrust the People's Commissariat of Communications to agree with the Comprod on the dispatch of route trains via the Northern Railway;
b) Entrust the Comprod and the People's Commissariat of Communications to enter into agreements on route trains for each railway.
c) Entrust the People's Commissariat of Communications to take the most urgent measures to provide the Volga-Bugulma railway with 60 wagons per day and the required number of locomotives, especially coordinating with local authorities on snow clearance.
17. Propose to the complainants to submit in written form a draft resolution on piecework.