V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

November 11, 1919

TO M. N. POKROVSKY
Comrade Pokrovsky! In my opinion, it follows from the enclosed* that everything should be in the People’s Commissariat for Education. Return it with your comments.

Yours, Lenin

M. N. POKROVSKY’S REPLY
If there are Party comrades interested in library work and understanding it, they should be
drawn into our library department,* which suffers greatly precisely from the lack of its own people—but
do not set up “Party” libraries parallel to the “Soviet” ones.

TO M. N. POKROVSKY
Agreed. Give a formal opinion of the People’s Commissar (or Deputy People’s Commissar) on this question to the Central Committee (copy to me).