V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

SUPPLEMENTS TO THE DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS ON THE CENSUS OF SOWN AREAS OF THE RURAL POPULATION

[July 24, 1919]

With the aim of registering the sown areas, livestock, implements and population in peasant and Soviet farms, the Council of People’s Commissars has decreed:

1) To carry out on the territory of the Soviet Republic a [sample] census of not more than 10% of peasant farms, a complete census of Soviet farms, communes and artels, and monographic descriptions of various peasant farms according to their economic structure.

2) To instruct the Central Statistical Board to proceed immediately with the organisational work for conducting the census and to complete it in the shortest possible time, in any case not later than September 1, 1919.

3) For the successful conduct of the censuses, to mobilise the agronomical personnel of the Commissariat of Agriculture, the teaching personnel of the Commissariat of Education, the personnel of the Commissariat for Food, the personnel of the local organs of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs, in agreement with the respective commissariats.

[4) To instruct the Central Statistical Board to enter into communication with the said commissariats on this question.]

5) To allocate [by a supplementary credit] an advance on the estimates for the second half of 1919* to the disposal of the Central Statistical Board 25,000,000 rubles.

6) To come to an agreement with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on the question of conducting a similar census in the Ukraine.

Note. In the event that the difficulties of completing the census in time prove considerable, the Central Statistical Board is authorised to reduce the percentage of farms to be covered by the sample census.

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

Secretary of the Council of People’s Commissars
L. Fotieva

* The text is incomplete.