V. I.

Lenin

1

Draft Decision for the Council of People’s

Commissars [1]

A preliminary conference to be summoned to consider question of linking the activities of all the economic commissariats.

All the economic commissariats, particularly the Commissariat for Food,
the Supreme Economic Council, the Commissariat for Railways and the
Commissariat for Agriculture, to be directed to submit to this conference
by Monday, November 1, information concerning all existing
interdepartmental economic commissions and a brief description of their
work.

| Written October 26, 1920 | |

2

Rough Draft Proposals

1) Direct the same trio (Avanesov

+ Larin

+ Popov) [2] to make a more accurate study of all the
commissions as to their composition, nature of their work, etc., to
classify them and formulate conclusions as to their necessary unification
and simplification, and report to us on Saturday, November 6.

2) Direct

(1) the Central Production Commission (2) the State Commission for Electrification (3) the Utilisation Commission (4) and the Commissariat for Agriculture to prepare a report to our commission concerning the nature and
results of their work from the point of view of the general economic plan of the whole R.S.F.S.R. and supply information at the
next sitting (November 6) on the following points:

( a) by what date the report will be ready ( b) what are the main subjects (or the chief contents)
of their report as far as the general economic plan of the R.S.F.S.R. is
concerned (if possible, written theses of the report to be given).

| Written November 1, 1920 | |

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Notes:
[1]
This document is part of a decision of the C.P.C. adopted on October
26, 1920, following a discussion of the question of establishing contacts
between the economic commissariats.

This question was raised in April 1920 at the Ninth
Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), whose corresponding resolution read: “The
Congress directs the C.C. to devise in the immediate future a system of
organisational connections between the Supreme Economic Council and other
commissariats directly engaged in economic affairs (the commissariats for
food, railways, and agriculture) in their everyday work with the aim of
securing complete unity in the fulfilment of the economic plan approved by
the Congress of the Party” (The C.P.S.U. in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences and Plenary Meetings of the Central Committee, Part 1, 1954, p. 490). In pursuance of the congress
decision, Lenin, at the meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars on
October 26, 1920, made a report “On Unifying the Work of the Economic
Commissariats in Framing an Integrated Economic Plan” and tabled his draft
resolution.

[2]
This trio was appointed by the Council of People’s Commissars on
October 26, 1920, to collect information regarding the interdepartmental
commissions.