...The provocative audacity of the attacks on the "holy of holies" of political economy, the witty paradoxes that mocked the accustomed bourgeois notions, the sharp pronouncements, the malicious irony, the deep and sincere feeling of indignation against the vileness of the existing order peeking out here and there, the revolutionary sincerity—all this electrified the readers of "Qu'est ce que la Propriété?" and gave a strong impetus to the whole of society when the book first appeared...
30 k
NOTES ON THE BROCHURE ABOUT THE WORK OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET
? witty?
NB
A BRIEF REVIEW
OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE
MOSCOW
SOVIET
See
Lenin especially
p. 10
Ugliness.
It should be the opposite.
State Publishing House, 1920
Activities of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet
... One meeting of the Executive Committee is attended by
35 members and discusses up to 10 issues. The latter can be divided into 5 groups:
1) Political issues; there was — 1.
2) Economic issues — 8.
3) Organizational issues — 46.
4) Healthcare issues — 1.
5) Miscellaneous issues — 11.
Activities of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet
The Presidium of the United Soviet met
75 times from June 17th (the first meeting) to October 1st. The meetings were attended by
398 members of the presidium and 492 issues were discussed, so that one meeting is attended by
about 5 people and about 7 issues are discussed.
The issues considered and discussed by the presidium can be divided into 12 groups:
1) Organizational issues: there were 115,
2) Economic issues:
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Russian Socialist Federative
Soviet Republic
Workers of all countries, unite!
PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT
OF EDUCATION
1917—OCTOBER—1920 (Brief Report)
State Publishing House, 1920
... "The Union of Workers of Education and Socialist Culture", almost six times larger than the old one in terms of members...
Higher vocational and technical educational institutions: 591.
Of these:
In Moscow................. 11
In Petrograd
. . . 14
In the province . . . . 18
On the Don .................
In the Caucasus
. . . .
In Siberia .................
In the Turkestan SR

In the Ukrainian SR .
In the Tatar SR . .
Whereas during the first distribution of forms timed to April 1920,
their return during the first due month yielded only isolated copies,
during the second distribution, timed to October
1920, no less than 120 completed questionnaires were received within the first three weeks
of the due month.
* According to information for September 1920.
58 k
PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF EDUCATION
Lenin's copy.
NB
P. S, p. 42 (Sep-
tember 1920), p. 107
NB
numbers?
only 1
September 1920