V. I.

Lenin

726

To:   S. P. SEREDA

Comrade Sereda, Please give me your comments. [1]

It is essential, as a matter of the greatest urgency, to
prepare a plan for a tractor campaign .

1) Purchase abroad

2) Production in Russia

3) Technicians—
workers, etc.

Be sure to let me know in a day or so, when you will present a preliminary memorandum. (Should not a
conference he convened at once?)

Lenin

19/X.

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the comments on a memorandum received by the
Council of People’s Commissars from V. D. Batyushkov, head of
the State Agricultural Museum, member of the Council and
Chairman of the Board of the All-Russia Chamber of Agriculture,
and G. Frolov, member of the Chamber, “On the Use of
Mechanical Power (Tractors) in Performing Agricultural Work
(Ploughing and Harvesting)”.

See also Lenin’s additions to the draft decree on an integrated
tractor service ( Lenin Miscellany XXXV , p. 164).