In issuing such a directive, the CC RKP proposes to be guided by the established principle: nothing from poor peasants, moderately from the middle peasant, much from the wealthy.

We advise determining the surplus as a maximum — for example, 500 million poods across all of Ukraine — and for the apportionment itself, to take one-fifth or one-tenth of the amount.

Written February 19, 1919

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript