Establish a commission for detailed development of the entire draft in order to establish with complete precision both individual districts (in §§ of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply), and concrete measures for strengthening the food detachment in specific points, the drawing in of workers, the quantities of necessary and possible supplies of alcohol and starch, and so forth.

The commission shall precisely formulate the responsibility of Komprod for the fulfillment of all emergency measures by it and the carrying through of them by revolutionary means, for the accounting of this responsibility in the further policy of the Council of People's Commissars.

The commission consists of Sheinman (+ 2 from food supply*)
Rykov
Schmidt
Kamenev
Avanesov (or from the Cheka)
Markov

Give the commission 2 days and convene the Council of People's Commissars on Friday 687.

DRAFT OUTLINE OF A COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS DECREE

ON THE FOOD SUPPLY OF MOSCOW

Written November 18, 1919

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript