1) Do not introduce all the People's Commissars (including the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) and their deputies.

2) From the remaining members, reduce the number of "intellectuals" and Soviet functionaries of the center.

3) Increase substantially the number of workers and laboring peasants, unconditionally closely connected with the masses of non-party workers and peasants.

6) Coordinate precisely with the decision of the Party Congress{110}.

Written November 29, 1919

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript