COOPERATION AND TRADE
2. VII. 1919 decreed.
1st session 8. VII. 1919.
{15. VII. 1919 I left for the Urals 3}
About 1 month t omv] back Miroff was dismissed; only from this moment...
Dismiss[ed | at the same time (about about j of weeks t [o mu] back)) the secretarial collegium
1 The department of the Centrosoyuz, which was in charge of local cooperative bodies, headed by V. K. L kov (Miroff), — a Menshevik, a fierce opponent of the Soviet power, later convicted in March 1931 in the case of the counter-revolutionary organization of Mensheviks-Interventionists (see «The Trial of the Counter-Revolutionary Organization of Mensheviks». Court session and verdict. M. 1931). In 1919, this department was a lever for carrying out the anti-Soviet influence of the old cooperative elite on the lower apparatus.
2 The activity (of the Mensheviks from the Centrosoyuz) is formally «cultural-educational»,— but in essence is anti-Soviet in nature.
3 Lenin quotes a phrase from Solts' report.
4 The Secretarial Collegium is an unofficial body of the non-commercial department of the Centrosoyuz, consisting of secretaries of various groups of this department and representatives of instructors.
This collegium, led by the Mensheviks, actively resisted the reorganization of cooperation in the Soviet spirit, which was carried out in the non-commercial department of the Centrosoyuz by the Bolsheviks O. Yu. Schmidt, A. A. Solts, and N. *I. Meshcheryakov.
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ON THE COMMODITY FUND.
DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE SNK 1.
[March 2, 1920]
Instruct the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade to enter into an agreement with the People's Commissariat of State Control * and the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission on the fight against those who conceal goods and supplies that could serve, among oth[er things], as a fund for export abroad.
1 At the meeting of the SNK on January 29, 1920, the theses of L. B. Krasin on foreign trade were heard. The resolution of this issue, according to the SNK resolution, was handed over to a commission consisting of representatives of

* Above the words: "State Control" L. A. Fotieva inscribed: "Rab. Kr. Inzh.". Ed.

the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade, the Supreme Council of National Economy, and the Commissariats of Finance, Food, Agriculture, State Control, and the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
The theses developed by the commission were approved by the SNK on February 10, 1920, and the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade was instructed to submit to the SNK within a week drafts of the necessary resolutions and bills and to precisely define the deadlines for implementation on all points of the theses».
On February 19, 1920, the SNK heard the draft decree on foreign trade presented by L. B. Krasin and approved the decision of the Small SNK on the organization of a foreign fund commission under the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade.
The SNK decided to transfer this draft to the Small SNK for consideration, instructing it to «consider the draft on its merits». During the discussion of this issue at the meeting on March 2, 1920, the SNK adopted the draft resolution proposed by Lenin, printed above.