V. I.

Lenin

The instructions of the People’s Commissariat for

Agriculture [1] are to be modified and effective control is to be exercised through all
Soviet agencies in the spirit of the following propositions:

1) Landowners or estate managers to be positively
prohibited from occupying posts in state farms of the same or neighbouring
uyezds in which these persons resided during the rule of the
landowners.

2) Lists to be kept of estate managers and employees at
state farms and surveillance to be kept over them as strictly as over
military experts in respect of their counter-revolutionary bent.

3) The number of representatives of uyezd and gubernia land
departments in state farms to be increased and greater control exercised
over them by these departments.

4) Greater attention to the workers’ committees and their
activities to be demanded of the trade union council.

5) Metayage and similar work in the state farms to be
prohibited.

6) All state farm personnel to be prosecuted immediately in
the event of their being unable to prove fulfilment by them of Article 59
of the Statute on Socialist Land Settlement, providing for assistance to be
rendered to the local peasantry.

7) Forms of reporting and informing the local peasant
population to be worked out for the state farms and workers’
committees.

8) Monthly reports to the C.P.C. on fulfilment of the
present rules to be demanded of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture
and of the workers’ committee in addition to those of 1 or 2 gubernia land
departments of the most important gubernias.

9) The Central Statistical Board to extend its monographic
description of the state farms by the inclusion of questions necessary for
checking fulfilment of the above points.

10) Allocation of land to the state farms to be rechecked
for possible excessive allotment of land or its seizure by non-proletarian
organisations.

11) Nomination of candidates to the state farms by the
gubernia and uyezd land departments to be made a general rule.

12) Instructions and measures to be submitted to the
C.P.C. after preliminary consideration by a commission [2]

Sereda, Sapronov, Vladimirsky, Tsyurupa, Milyutin and

Golubev. [3]

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Notes:
[1]
Here the following text was inserted in the manuscript by Lydia
Fotieva, Secretary of the C.P.C.: “concerning the organisation and
activities of the gubernia and district state farm administrations.”— Ed .

[2]
Following this are the words “composed of” written in the manuscript
by L. A. Fotieva.— Ed .

[3]
Here the following text is inserted in the manuscript in Fotieva’s
handwriting: “The commission to be given a week. Its summoning and report
to be entrusted to Sereda.”— Ed .