V. I.

Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Regulations on Subbotniks [1]

I. Aims And Purpose Of Subbotniks

| 1) Subbotniks are a form of propaganda of the ideas of compulsory
labour service and self-organisation of the working class. | |
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| 2) Subbotniks should be a laboratory of forms of communist
labour. | +a) Higher labour productivity

b) " work discipline |
| 3) Subbotniks must be started primarily for important and urgent
jobs. | c) implementation of dictatorship of the proletariat |
| 4) Subbotniks should yield results not below established output
rates, but participants should try to exceed these rates. | d) leadership of the peasantry |
| | e) combating famine and economic chaos |

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Notes:
[1]
The “Regulations on Subbotniks” were drafted by A. N. Sokolov, a
member of the staff of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.). They were
prepared, apparently, for the first anniversary of the launching of the
subbotniks (anniversary date May 10, 1920).