I request that you receive the bearer, Comrade Prokofyev. His request to requisition the Surkov library for a district of 40,000 people is, in my view, correct; perhaps certain usage rights could be retained for Surkov? I request that you send me a copy of your resolution on this matter, and likewise I request that you assist the comrades from Rodniki in expanding their library. Could not one of the requisitioned landowners' libraries be sent to them? I request that you inform me about this as well.250

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript