NOTES ON A TELEGRAM FROM G. E. ZINOVYEV  \
November 25, 1919]
The army has no food whatsoever. The People’s Commissariat for Food Supply had managed to secure the removal of Badaev—and yet now he himself has abandoned us in a dire predicament. I earnestly urge you to take extraordinary measures without delay; otherwise, grave consequences are inevitable.
*
To Swidersky, with urgent request for a reply—
? What is the matter?
Along the margin of the document, Lenin has written: “Archived.” Ed.

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NOTES ON A TELEGRAM FROM KOSTROMSKY, GOVERNOR OF THE
COMMISSARIAT OF THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ GOVERNMENT  \
[November 26, 1919]
The Unzhensky Executive Committee of Makaryevsky County has fully fulfilled its allocation of grain—50% of the bread quota and 50% of the meat quota. The Provincial Food Supply Collegium resolved to express
NOTES ON A TELEGRAM FROM THE PLACED-TO-POWER
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ORENBURG PROVINCIAL FOOD COMMISSION.
[November 28, 1919]
I urgently request your immediate order regarding the movement of route train No. 59, which is carrying wheat from the Ak-Bulak station under the jurisdiction of the Orenburg Provincial Food Commission and has been detained in Ryazan. The journey has already taken several days. There is an acute food crisis, and no one has offered any assistance.
★
!! To Markov: Is that so?
For information only ((Return.)'
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ON THE FOOD SUPPLY TO MOSCOW 1.
To Swidersky: Where do you publish?
(NB: Digests)
24,747 in the DKK LBRI 1919.
Melnychan’s “Ilya” **
Yakovleva
Sorokin
3 A II II SORATOROV.
Tsitsun “Ilya”
Badaev
Melnychan’s
Markov
Swidersky
Lenin
Baku* *
On the document, Lenin has noted: “Archived.” Ed.
* Ivtsivadze. Ed.
The last three surnames were not recorded by Lenin. Ed.

LENIN’S COLLECTION
<f.
PROJECT FOR DISCUSSION AND RESOLUTION OF QUESTIONS.
(“Constitution”)
| 1) Formally sign the agreement
] 2) Resume daily reporting

Mobilize workers for transportation
{ Assign the Moscow Council of Professors—plus the People’s Commissariat for Railways (( 4) Urgently discuss measures to deliver potatoes and barley—
And
supervise the delivery process
5)
Expedite the approval of emergency meat rations… Inform Melnychan’s
precisely about storage locations and the condition of transport vehicles.
What about the workers’ ration?

The question of supplying Moscow with food was discussed at a meeting of the SNK on December 1, 1919, following a report by L. B. Kamenev, Chairman of the Moscow Soviet. The SNK’s resolutions on this issue were formulated on the basis of proposals submitted by Lenin (SNK Protocol No. X, 332, dated December 6, 1919).

The matter concerned the signing of an agreement between the People’s Commissariat for Railways and the People’s Commissariat for Food Supply regarding the transportation of grain from producing regions to consuming regions.
*
The SNK was tasked with providing daily updates on Moscow’s bread supply and on the movement of potato shipments destined for Moscow—these duties were assigned to the Moscow Council of Professors, the People’s Commissariat for Food Supply, and the People’s Commissariat for Railways (SNK Protocol No. JVs 332, dated December 6, 1919).
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ON THE WORK OF FOOD ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS.
DRAFT RESOLUTION 1
,December 6, 1919]
Establish a special commission to deliberate on this issue.
First and foremost, the most pressing task is to renew and reorganize the administrative apparatus of food agencies; second, to infuse a spirit of initiative into the very work of these agencies.
To outline practical means for implementing these tasks:
engage worker cooperatives in the broadest possible participation;

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Similarly—but on a smaller scale—broaden the scope of bourgeois cooperatives; accelerate the development of a workers’ food inspection system, while simultaneously working to involve workers in all areas of food-related work; introduce a bonus system for specific groups of employees, workers, and particularly recommended individuals from all segments of the population, encouraging and incentivizing their active participation in the work; do not confine the commission to narrowly defined tasks, but rather view its mandate as a general orientation toward the broader objectives of its work.
Select members for the commission who are not exclusively food specialists.
I propose that the commission include
Kamenev
V. D. Bonch-Bruevich
P’yshda –
It is imperative to engage Orlov—though not as a formal member of the commission—given that he is the author of the book “Food Work Under Soviet Power,” Volume 3.
Yakovleva
Sosnovsky
1 It appears that Lenin submitted the draft resolution at a meeting of the Party Central Committee.
2 V. V. Schmidt—during the year 1919, through the Labor Commissariat.
*
N. Orlov—the author of the book “Food Work Under Soviet Power. On the Anniversary of the October Revolution.” M. People’s Commissariat for Food Supply. 1918.
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NOTE TO M. A. LARIN
[December 11, 1919]
A decision has already been adopted in the Council of Defense, based on Kamenev’s report.

In a letter dated December 11, 1919, Larin requested a meeting with Lenin to discuss ways of increasing grain supplies to Moscow “without causing significant, long-term disruption to military transportation”... Following Kamenev’s report “On the Food Supply for Moscow’s Workers” at the Council of Defense meeting on December 11,

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it was decided: “Assign the People’s Commissariat for Food Supply and the People’s Commissariat for Railways to jointly develop measures that could most effectively resolve the food crisis in Moscow.”