V. I.

Lenin

Re Theses of a Report at the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets on Improving the Activities of the Soviet Authorities in Combating Bureaucratism [1]

Theses to be revised rather radically, on all points, in
the direction of a very big reduction in the pledges, which are extremely
vague, obscure and excessive and the weight of emphasis to be placed on
concrete, practical proposals realisable in a short time.

Supplementary to the theses, a draft resolution for the Eighth Congress
of Soviets to be drawn up within a week.

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Notes:
[1]
On November 27, 1920, the Politbureau examined Zinoviev’s theses of a
report, “On Improving the Activities of the Soviet Local and Central
Authorities and on Combating Bureaucratism” for the forthcoming Eighth
All-Russia Congress of Soviets. The Politbureau endorsed Lenin’s draft and
set up a commission which was authorised to revise the theses. These, in
their final wording, were published on December 14, 1920, in Pravda and Izvestia.