LENIN'S ANSWER
1) Either today (hardly: already tired)
2) tomorrow, if there is a
meeting, or come?
3) on Saturday?
NOTE FROM I. V. STALIN
I don't care when; reckon with your own convenience and
only with your own (I can come, if you say so and when you say so).

INSTRUCTION TO GOSIZDAT*
November 26, 1920
I request that it be published without fail by the deadline and inform me
immediately.
Lenin
588.1
ON THE SUBJECTS OF NEWSREELS
November 26, 1920
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1) Maternity homes and child protection.
2) Palaces transformed into orphanages.
3) Wrangel's front.
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DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE SNK ON DIRECT TAXES**
November 30, 1920
§ 1. 1) Instruct the commission to additionally consider
within 1 week the question, first, about the possibility of abolishing local monetary taxes
and collect accurate data both for the Petrograd and Moscow
governorates, and as far as possible for other governorates;
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The Deputy People's Commissar for Nationalities addressed V. I. Lenin with a request to influence
Gosizdat, which was delaying the publication of a collection of decrees of Soviet power on the national question prepared on the instruction of V. I. Lenin for the upcoming December 15 meeting of national workers of the RSFSR.
* * The draft written by V. I. Lenin was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars
November 30, 1920.

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second, on the need to prepare and implement simultaneously both the abolition of monetary taxes and the transformation
of the prodrazvyorstka into a tax in kind; § 2. 2) Instruct the People's Commissariat for Internal
Affairs to appeal to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee with a request to demand
from all local executive committees information and materials for the Congress
of Soviets on all issues raised in § 1.
§ 3. 3) Instruct the People's Commissariat for Finance to submit
to the Council of People's
Commissars a draft resolution of the
SNK on the issues indicated in § 1, depending on the decision
of the commission.
ON THE REORGANIZATION OF NARKOMPROS
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DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
November 1920
To postpone the reorganization of Narkompros as a whole, subjecting
the issue to a more thorough discussion.
Immediately implement the following measure:
1) Create the position of Deputy People's Commissar, entrusting him with full
management of all administrative work and subordinating to him in this
respect all sectors and departments of Narkomat,
2) appoint Comrade Litkens to this position, introducing him into the
collegium of Narkompros and instructing him not to leave his work in Glavpolitprosvet, but to devote to it necessarily at least half
the number of working hours, and immediately oblige Glavpolitpro
svet to find and introduce a deputy for Litkens in Glavpolitprosvet.
3) Instruct Comrade Litkens to prepare a draft of precise
instructions on the functions and rights of the Deputy People's Commissar.

LETTER TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY
November 29, 1920
Comrade Lunacharsky! Yesterday we had a detailed conversation with Comrade Lit-
kens. In my opinion, his and Comrade Solovyov's projects are artificial.
The Central Committee will decide, of course. My preliminary considerations
are as follows:
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