V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) [1] (October 26, 1920)

1. A very comprehensive and solemn printed statement concerning the
Control

Commission [2] to he issued within two days. Fulfilment by Bukharin and
Dzerzhinsky.

2. Ask Dzerzhinsky and Preobrazhensky to work in the Control Commission
not less than three hours a day in order to make it a really effective
organ of Party and proletarian conscience.

3. “ Discussion Leaflet” to be started immediately and given
particular attention. Bukharin and Preobrazhensky to take special
charge.

4. The Control Commission be recommended, as a special task, to adopt a
careful and individualised attitude, often even in the form of a downright
cure, towards representatives of the so-called opposition who have suffered
a psychological crisis due to failures in their administrative or Party
careers. We should try to calm them, explain things to them in a comradely
manner, find them (without using the command method) suitable jobs
congenial to their psychological nature, give them advice on this score,
the directives of the C.C.’s Orgbureau, etc.