Date: 1920-11-30
Source: ru:LS/v34

The transition from money to a non-monetary system of commodity exchange is beyond dispute.
For this transition to be successfully completed, it is essential that commodity exchange—rather than commodity exchange in the form of money—be brought into being.
As long as we are unable to carry out commodity exchange, that is, to provide
the peasantry with industrial products—until then, the peasantry will remain
obliged to cling to the remnants of commodity (and, by extension, monetary) circulation, to its mere surrogate.
To abolish the surrogate—money—before the peasantry has been provided with what truly renders the surrogate superfluous is economically misguided.
We must ponder this matter very seriously.
Lenin
Printed from a typewritten copy.
26312
NOTE TO THE DEPUTY PEOPLE’S COMMISSAR FOR FOOD SUPPLIES
November 30, 1920
I request that you inform me whether you have received the Politburo’s resolution on supplying Baku with food at 100% of the required ration, and what directives you have issued in connection with this resolution regarding Azerbaijan.
Please also send me a copy of your telegram to Frumkin (I would appreciate it if you could forward a copy of your telegram to Frumkin).
Chairman of the Council for Defense and Supply
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original document, corrected and signed
by V. I. Lenin.

1920
26492
ON THE ELABORATION OF THE FINAL RESULTS OF THE CENSUS
IN THE RED ARMY AND THE NAVY
(RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE, DECEMBER 6, 1920)
In view of the extraordinary state importance of the data obtained through the census of the Red Army and the Navy, and given the urgent need to utilize these census materials in the preparation of calculations essential for implementing pressing measures, the Council of Labor and Defense resolves:
1. To recognize the development of census data for the Red Army and the Navy as a task of military urgency and to entrust the Central Statistical Office with commencing the processing of these materials according to the terms set forth below, so that this work may be completed: (a) with respect to the material already received within a two‑week period, in order to determine the army’s strength by major categories (combat, non‑combat, rear services, front‑line units), and within a one‑month period, according to age and occupational group; (b) with respect to the remaining material—still to be received—in the same timeframes, beginning from the moment it is delivered to the Central Statistical Office.
2. The first phase of this work shall be understood to encompass the processing of census data for the Red Army and the Navy with regard to determining the size of the army and navy, ascertaining the age composition, and compiling a list of specific (professional) occupations in combination with two age groups. The detailed program for this work shall be established by the Central Statistical Office in consultation with
the Revolutionary
Military Council of the Republic.
3. In order to ensure that the census of the Red Army and the Navy is carried out with the requisite personnel, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic shall, on an urgent basis, assign from the Red Army to the disposal of the Central Statistical Office, for the duration of the census data processing, statisticians—as well as other personnel (accountants, bookkeepers, clerks) serving in the Red Army who are needed for the work as supervisors, controllers, and enumerators, in accordance with the lists submitted by the Central Statistical Office, the total number of which should be increased to 400 individuals.
Note: Upon the recommendation of the Central Statistical Office, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic shall, on an urgent basis, replace any of the assigned personnel who prove unsuitable for the work, replacing them with more
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