V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW45; ru:PSS/v52;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Copies to Comrades Litkens, Solovyov, Krestinsky

29/XI.

Comrade Lunacharsky: We had a detailed talk with Comrade Litkens yesterday. In my opinion, his and Comrade Solovyov’s projects are artificial.37 The decision will, of course, be taken by the Central Committee. My preliminary considerations are as follows:

1) To create the post of Assistant People’s Commissar, transferring all administrative work to him.

2) To transform the “Organisational Sector” into an “Organisational Centre” (with a head who is a member of the Board). This centre shall be in charge of the administrative, organisational, supply and similar aspects of all sectors.

3) To abolish the Chief Committee for Vocational Education (Glavprofobr), merging it with the second-level school, on condition that: (a) the general educational and political subjects in the second-level schools be increased, and (b) the transition from vocational-technical education to polytechnical education be ensured, as far as possible.

4) To revive and put in order the State Academic Council (GUS) as a body for discussing all scientific-pedagogical questions.

Its composition = all members of the Board plus the best specialists, even if they are bourgeois.

5) To set up the following sectors: (1) pre-school; (2) first-level school; (3) second-level school (= Glavprofobr); (4) out-of-school (= Chief Committee for Political Education—Glavpolitprosvet); (5) higher school; (6) art.

6) To retain the art sector as a single sector, placing “political commissars” from among the Communists in all the central and leading institutions of this sector.

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