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Lenin

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To:   G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY

Comrade Krzhizhanovsky

Would it not he possible to develop (not at once, but straightaway after the
Congress, [2] for the Council of Labour and Defence) a practical plan for an electrification
campaign:

Etwas [1]

:

(1) in each uyezd urgently to set up at least one power
station; (2) make it obligatory for this centre to become a training , lecture, demonstration, etc., centre, and
take the entire population through these courses (beginning with the young
people, or by volosts, etc.); (3) immediately assign tasks among the population as
to what they can now make a start on (we need 2 1/2 million
poods of copper—so let us at once assign tasks for bringing in 25 million poods, let people voluntarily begin to
collect church bells, door handles, etc.; then poles , etc.); (4) begin preparatory navvying work at once , assigning
tasks among the uyezds; (5) mobilise all engineers, electricians, all who have
done courses at physico-mathematical faculties, etc., without
exception. Their obligation will be to deliver not less than
two (four?) lectures a week, to teach not less than (10–50?)
people about electricity. If they fulfil this—a bonus. If
they don’t—gaol.

(6) Write urgently a few popular pamphlets (some to be translated from Germ an ) and adapt the “book” (yours)
into a number of more popular articles, for teaching in
the schools and reading to the peasants.

And then a number of detailed measures on the following two groups:

aa) propaganda and training bb) first steps towards pulling this into practice at once,
and from all angles.

Lenin