Date: 1918
Source: ru:LS/v34

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FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
DECEMBER 8, 1918
ON UNIFORMS, ARMAMENT, AND SUPPLY OF TEN FORMING DIVISIONS AND ON SENDING AGITATORS
a) Entrust Comrades Stalin and Podvoisky, with the participation of Comrade Sverdlov, to do everything possible regarding political agitation and sending commissars to the forming divisions.
Stalin's report is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11.
b) On the issue of uniforms, entrust the Chief of the General Staff to convene a meeting with representatives from the Extraordinary Commission for Army Supply, the Department of Military Procurements of the VSNKh, and from organizations that have quartermaster supplies in their possession (the All-Russian Evacuation Commission, the Military District Administration).
Execution is entrusted to Sklyansky. The first report is scheduled for Wednesday.
c) Adopt the following resolution:
The Council of Defense deems it necessary to provide the broadest initiative in the matter of local supply procurement, both by military district and provincial commissariats and armies at the fronts, as well as by the Soviets. The task of the Extraordinary Commission for Army Supply is to assist in every way and to deliver to the appropriate local bodies all necessary raw materials, means of production, and finished products from the VSNKh, central collegiums, and other sources, and to introduce the necessary control and unity into the process of restoring production to meet the diverse needs of the army.
It would be highly desirable for the ten divisions currently forming within the Republic to arrive at the front in good spirits so that they can withstand the serious battles which are undoubtedly being prepared in the not-so-distant future. I believe it would be necessary to send a number of known political figures, communists, to each forming division to monitor the conditions under which the drill and political preparation of our new formations are taking place and to raise their morale through agitation. This measure has yielded excellent results at the front... It is necessary to find a way to uniform and arm all ten divisions forming in the country as soon as possible, as only under this condition will our fronts receive the necessary support, since at present almost all available reserves have already been integrated into the combat line.

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d) On the housing issue. Entrust a meeting composed of Sklyansky, Vladimirsky, or his replacement in the housing department, with the participation of Sverdlov and Pokrovsky, to present to the Council of Defense by Wednesday, December 11, their considerations on the most extensive measures and to outline the type of local bodies for implementing these measures. The convening of the commission and the report are entrusted to Comrade Stalin.
ON THE REPORT OF I. V. STALIN
ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON REGIONALISM
To approve and publish*.
Request the Central Executive Committee to issue the resolutive part (the last 5 points) as a mandatory resolution in a separate leaflet for wide distribution.
Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the protocol No. 3 of the meeting of the Council of Defense, December 8, 1918.
14509
FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
DECEMBER 11, 1918
ON THE REPORT OF I. V. STALIN
ON COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY (ON REGULATING RAILWAY TRANSPORT)
To approve and publish**.
* The resolution of the Council of Defense written by I. V. Stalin was published in Pravda No. 271, December 13, 1918.
** The resolution of the Council of Defense was published in Pravda No. 271, December 13, 1918. We present this resolution: