V. I.

Lenin

Measures for Improving the Organisation of State Farms [1]

Draft Decision For The C.P.C.

All work to improve the organisation and management of the
state farms should be centred on strongly combating, first, the patently
landowner-type abuses that have come to light in the application of money
rent, métayage, and so on; secondly, the extremely low labour
discipline and extremely low productivity of labour.

Exact information to be demanded of the gubernia land departments and
state farms as to what measures they have taken in this direction and what
practical results they have achieved. Responsible persons to be appointed
answerable before a court of law for the carrying out of this decision and
the elimination of abuses. If need be, the entire managing personnel of the
worst farms should be replaced. Certain farms should be selected as
specialised model farms of a producing or purely consuming type and data
concerning the state of these farms to be recorded separately.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin proposed this draft at a meeting of the C.P.C. during a
discussion of the question of the state farms. The Council instructed
S. P. Sereda, People’s Commissar for Agriculture, “to submit the exact
text of all decisions on this question and the draft decision drawn up in
this connection”. The Draft Decision on Measures for State Farm
Organisation drawn up by the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture was
endorsed by the C.P.C. on April 15, 1920.