## Remarks on the Draft Decree on Requisitions and Confiscations{131}

* Underlining in the text of the decree belongs to V. I. Lenin. Ed.

This will not do. This is a point where one must be far more cautious.

Are there no rules on this subject at the Komprod and at the NKVoen?

# This is perhaps the most important and most dangerous point. It is impossible to permit the seizure of a second horse and a second cow.

Written between December 16, 1919 and January 24, 1920.

First published in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV.

Printed from the manuscript.

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## Letter to P. I. Popov (On the Consumption of the Population of the RSFSR Before and After the October Revolution){132}

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Comrade Popov! Be so kind—if it does not trouble you—to return to me the enclosed table with your assessment:

from the standpoint of statistical science and its contemporary data on Russia (aa) is it possible to compile such a table or is it not (by reason, say, of insufficient data)?

(bb) if it is possible, what would be the main corrections?

(cc) would any of your specialists undertake to compile such a table (even if with broader ranges of "from — to")?

Yours, Lenin

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Let us assume (for round numbers, for simplification and for easiest memorization) that the population of the RSFSR is 50 million.

{ The norm is to be reckoned as what, according to science, a person needs in bread, meat, milk, eggs, etc. } i.e. the norm is not a number of calories, but the quantity and quality of food.

[ By "workers" are meant industrial workers, and the non-worker urban population is classified into the corresponding groups b and c. ]

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Social Types:

a) proletarian and semi-proletarian urban population

b) the same—rural

c) middle peasantry and the most closely related petty bourgeois population generally

d) rich peasantry and urban middle bourgeoisie

e) the highest classes.

Written in the second half of December 1919.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIV.

Printed from the manuscript.

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## Draft Resolution of the Council of Defense on the State of Transport

Session 2/II. 1920.{133} (1) 50 → 100 % routes.

(2) Kazan railway.

(3) Samara – Zlatoust – Chelyabinsk

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{intensify the movement of foodstuffs.

(4) Intensify foodstuff loading in the Chelyabinsk district.

(5) Dispatch highly responsible workers to repair shops (of Petrograd and Moscow).

(6) Premiums in items of uniform.

(7) Repair trains on the Western Front.

+ (8) Dispatch of Arzhanov.

+ (9) Military aides to the heads of railways.

– (10) 1 railway to be transferred to the army.

(11) Remove workers from the VChK to transport.

(12) Repair factories to be placed on equal footing with transport.

(13) Reserves of Chuso[19], transferred to the Food Commissariat, to be given to transport workers.

** Committee of State Construction. Ed.

(15) Increase the number of military forces (40,000) for combating snowdrifts.

(16) ad 5[20] + members of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

(17) Intensify subbotniki[*] for repairs.

(18) Military situation 30–50 versts.

(19) Volosts near railway lines to be reinforced with workers.

(20) Work on fuel to be especially intensified.

(21) Request the Orgburo of the Central Committee to issue a circular to the party and to intensify work in the indicated direction.

(22) Revise the transport plan with a view to intensifying foodstuff and fuel shipments.

(23) Close certain factories and convert them to repairs.

(24) Procurement of spades and gloves.

(25) Snow-clearing machines and their distribution.

(26) Instruction of track service agents.

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## Postscript to the Resolutions of the Council of Defense on the State of Transport

I draw the most serious attention of all leading Soviet workers to these decisions. The situation with transport is desperate. To save it, measures that are truly heroic and revolutionary are needed.

2/III. 1920.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIV.

Printed from the manuscripts.

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## On Privileges for Workers in the Repair of Locomotives{134}

Draft Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars

1) Publish information on routes as a reward for repairs.

2) Instruct the NKPSu to work out a plan of rewards by routes such that the most necessary repair work would be performed, and not specialized route repairs.

3) Compile all data on repairs for routes and supplement it, submitting it for elaboration to the Central Statistical Administration.

4) Instruct the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, the Moscow, Petrograd, Ivanovo, and Tver councils of trade unions to work out the question of utilizing the best shops for repairs the full 24 hours of the day{135}.

Written February 5, 1920.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIV.

Printed from the manuscript.

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## Remarks on the Draft Resolution of the French Socialist Party{136}

* "Proposals." Ed.

** Summa summaram – total sum. Ed.

*** "Remained faithful." Ed.

**** "Refers" to an integral program. Ed.

* Lines. Ed.

** "Remained worthy" (??). Ed.

***… Accomplices of the Kaiser ((there we have it! and what of the accomplices of Poincaré? Clemenceau? Lloyd George? Wilson?)). Ed.

**** Regrouping. Ed.

***** "Traditional principles of international socialism." Ed.

* "Discussions in common." Ed.

** "Condemnation" of social-chauvinism. Ed.

*** "Solidary" (close). Ed.

Written between February 8 and 14, 1920.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI.

Printed from the manuscript.