V. I.

Lenin

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To:   M. N. POKROVSKY

15. I. 1920

Deputy People’s Commissar for Education

Please issue orders for our state libraries (the Rumyantsev
Museum, the Petrograd Public Library, and others)
immediately to begin collecting and keeping all whiteguard
newspapers (Russian and foreign). Please give me a draft
of the order proscribing that all military and civil authorities are to collect and hand over these newspapers to the
state libraries. [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, C.P.C.

P.S. Perhaps you would find it appropriate in these orders (or better separately?) to order and check on the
collection of complete sets of our newspapers since 1917.