V. I.

Lenin

722

To:   THE MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) [1]

Members of the C.C. :

I emphatically disagree with this project. Changing names is a harmful game.

In fulfilment of the decision of the Ninth Congress (I enclose the text of the decision), it is necessary, in my
opinion, to set up a permanent inter-departmental commission
of the Council of Labour and Defence, under my chairmanship (if the comrades do not object). That is quite
sufficient.

Lenin

15/X.

Please return to me with indications as to who has read it.

Lenin

15/X.

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Notes:
[1]
Written by Lenin on the minutes of an inter-departmental
conference held on October 14, 1920. This conference considered it
necessary to transform the Supreme Economic Council into a
People’s Commissariat for Industry and to setup an extra–
departmental body under the Council of Labour and Defence for
co-ordinating economic plans for production, transport, supplies,
fuel, foreign trade, labour and currency distribution.

Enclosed with Lenin’s note was the text of the decision of
the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) “On Organisational Links
Between the Economic Commissariats”. This decision states: “The
Congress instructs the Central Committee in the immediate future
to work out a system of organisational links between the Supreme
Economic Council and other Commissariats (the People’s
Commissariats for Food, Railways, Agriculture) that are directly linked
with the economy in their daily work, with the aim of ensuring
complete unity in carrying out the economic plan endorsed by
the Party Congress.” =

On the document are the following notes and signatures of those members of the Central Committee who
read Lenin’s note: = “Read. N. Krestinsky ”, = “Read and agree
with Lenin. L. Serebryakov ”, = “Agree with Comrade Lenin’s
proposal. F. Dzerzhinsky ”, = “Read, agree with Vladimir Ilyich.
A. Andreyev ”. =

In the hand of the secretary is written: = “Comrade
Tomsky has read it. Has telephoned that he fully agrees with