V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on Concessions [2]

A commission composed of Comrades Lenin, Milyutin, Kursky,
Lezhava and Sereda to be directed within a week [1] to revise and edit that part of the draft on concessions which is suitable
for publication abroad, namely, first, the general decision, as a matter of
principle, to grant concessions; second, a brief outline of the general
economic and legal conditions for concessions; third, a list of, concession
objects with a sufficiently clear description of the economic significance
of each

object. [3]

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Notes:
[1]
The text from the word “composed” to the word “week” is in the
handwriting of L. A. Fotieva.— Ed .

[2]
In the interests of the country’s speedy economic rehabilitation and in
order to establish peaceful business relations with the capitalist
countries the Soviet Government considered it possible to grant concessions
to foreign companies. On October 30, 1920, Speaking of the Second Congress
of the Communist International and the First Congress of the Peoples of the
East, Lenin pointed out: “These were international congresses which united
the Communists and showed that in all civilised countries and in all the
backward countries of the East, the banner of Bolshe- vism, the programme
of Bolshevism, the line of Bolshevik action are an emblem of salvation, an
emblem of struggle to the workers of all civilised countries and the
peasants of all the backward colonial countries. They showed that, during
thc-. past three years, Soviet Russia not only beat off those who fell upon
her in order to throttle her, but won the sympathy of the working people of
the whole world ...” (see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 329-30), p. 218

[3]
This draft was adopted by the plenum of the C.C. at its evening
session, November 10, 1920, on the report of Comrade Artyom
(F. A. Sergeycv), “On Enlisting the Co-operation of Legion Unions to
Control Execution of Our Orders”.