V. I. Lenin

Re plan of urgent measures in favour of the middle peasant:

1) Special tax on middle peasants to be relaxed
at once.

2) Party people to be sent out (3 from each gubernia
committee) specially to work for the middle peasants .

3) Commissions to be set up in the centre (a number of
them) and sent out to the local areas to defend the middle peasant.

4) Draw up and endorse plan for Kalinin’s tours. Publish
dates, places, reception of visitors, etc.

5) Participation in these tours (Points 4 and 5) by the
People’s Commissariats for Justice, Internal Affairs, Agriculture ,
and others.

6) Press campaign.

7)“Manifesto” in defence of the middle peasant.

8) Verification (and cancellation) of coercive measures for
joining the communes.

9) Verification of food measures in the direction
of relaxing requisitions, exactions, etc., from the middle peasants .

10) Amnesty.

11)“Identification of the kulak.”

12) Surplus appropriation of grain and fodder.

13) Handicraftsmen and artisans recognised.

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