Date: 1920-12
Source: ru:LS/v34

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NOTES ON THE TASKS OF ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION
Late December 1920
The Primary Tasks of Economic Construction.
Attitude Toward the Peasantry: Taxes + Bonuses...*
Taxes = requisitioning.
Same—fuel.
Same—raw materials.
Grain and fuel. Foodstuffs and fuel.
A Unified Economic Plan and GOELRO...
The Ratio Between Minimum and Maximum.
Metallurgy.

NOTES ON ELECTRIFICATION
Late December 1920
The Significance of Electrification
1. Modern Technology.
2. The Restoration of Productive Forces—and Their Enhancement.
3. Centralization—To the Maximum.
4. Communism = Soviet Power + Electrification.
5. A Comprehensive, Unified Plan: Centralizing the Attention and Efforts of the People.
6. The Advancement of Culture (among the Working Masses).
7. Not Simply Literacy.
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LETTER TO G.M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY
Late December 1920
Could we not develop—(not now, but after the Congress for the Council of Labor and Defense, yet immediately):
* Here, two abbreviated terms in Lenin’s handwriting remain undeciphered: “(Food Supplies Sold).”
** Idem—same.

1920
A Practical Plan for the Electrification Campaign:
E t w a*:
1) In each county, promptly establish at least one electric power station;
2) Charge this center with serving as a hub for training, lectures, demonstrations, and the like, and conduct courses for the entire population—beginning with the youth, or by volost, and so forth;
3) Immediately begin requisitioning among the populace whatever can be prepared right now (we need 2 million poods of copper—let us immediately requisition 25 million poods, and let people voluntarily collect bells, handles, and the like; then move on to poles and other such materials);
4) Commence preparatory earthworks without delay and distribute these tasks across the counties;
5) Mobilize all engineers, electrical technicians, and every graduate of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics—and others—without exception.
Duty: deliver at least two (or perhaps four?) lectures per week. Train no fewer than (10–50?) individuals in the principles of electricity.
If you fulfill your duties—bonuses await.
If you fail to comply—imprisonment.
6) Urgently compose several popular pamphlets—partly translating them from German—and revise “the book” (yours) into a series of more accessible essays designed for classroom instruction and for reading among the peasantry.
And a host of additional detailed measures pertaining to these two broad areas: a) propaganda and education; b) the immediate commencement of implementation—from every corner of the land.
Lenin

MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY
December 22, 1920
Comrade Glässer!
I earnestly request that you send me today:
1) The stenographic report of the IX Congress of the RCP (1920). It is bound and stored in my office, tucked away in the “rotating file”;
2) An English-language book—(it was once on my desk)—Gould’s “The Coming Revolution.”**
* —Approximately, pu m e r n Oy.
** —Gould. “The Coming Revolution.”