NOTE BY S. P. SEREDA1
To Sereda for review: what is the matter here?
Is everything correct? And your measures?
2/V [1919]
Lenin
1 The note is written on a copy of a telegram from Kursk to the People's Commissariat of Agriculture,
a copy to Lenin, dated April 30, 1919, from the chairman of the ongoing
1st Provincial Congress on Land Management. The telegram, based on
speeches by delegates from the localities, reported that the population
unilaterally and incorrectly interpreted the provision on
socialist land management on the issue of land distribution for individual use and a special clarification on this issue, published
in No. 77 of "Izvestia VTsIK" on April 10, 1919, signed by the Chairman
of the Council of People's Commissars V. I. Lenin and the People's Commissar of Agriculture S. P. Sereda, that such an interpretation paralyzes the possibility of the correct implementation of the land management plan
of Soviet farms and the organization of collective associations; the congress requested to provide additional clarification urgently by telegram.