V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on The Co-Operatives [1]

I. Collect information on the actual implementation by the
co-operatives of the basic line of Soviet policy, namely:

(1) not only co-operative organisation of the whole population, but the predominant role of the proletarian and
semi-proletarian population in co-operative activities.

(2) such a system of supply and distribution as would really
enable the poor (= proletarians + semi-proletarians) to derive
benefit (goods, etc.) from the delivery of all surpluses of grain
to the state.

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1 direct the Co-operative Department of the Supreme Economic
Council and the Commissariat for Food, together with the Central
Statistical Board to collect this information. Report in a
fortnight.

II. Direct the Food Commissariat to draw up instructions concerning
Soviet agents in the co-operatives and develop propaganda and organising
work to this end.

III. Direct the workers’ co-operatives to elect a majority of their
own representatives to the Board of Centrosoyuz and make it possible to
introduce Communists there experienced in practical work.

IV. Krestinsky—draft decree on consumers’ communes.