V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Council of People’s Commissars on the Purveyance of Raw Materials [1]

A commission to he set up, which shall, within a fortnight:

1) Devise measures for unifying all grain and raw material
purveyance under a single department or by a sufficiently secure and
expedient unification for this purpose of the respective departments. Use
must be made of the co-operative machinery.

2) The commission, in particular, must examine the question
of employing the Food Army and the internal security units for the
purveyance of all kinds of raw materials; following this, the conditions
and concrete dimensions for applying bonuses and exchange of commodities
(as a rule, on a collective basis), in particular, returning to the
peasants in the form of processed goods part of the raw materials delivered
by them.

3) The application everywhere of the surplus-appropriation
system in the purveyance of raw materials, as well as of fixed prices, is
obligatory.