NOTE TO E.M. SKLIANSKY

1 Lenin received information about the 7 food routes sent on the night of February 2 S to February 26 in Khalagov's certificate of February 25.
* In response to Lenin's request, V. Fomin replied as follows: alio
1) given by them
900 versts speed. Special supervision established. 2) Where they are now -
there is no information at hand. 3) We have no information yet. Food has moved along the northern part of Omsk. They demand empty cars. Measures taken,
Rostov works well: for the 27th - 8 trains, for the 28th - also? 8. 5) Beyond Vyatka, Sh/wagons in motion on the 28th and on the northern part of Omsk
V) food routes. In general, I think the situation will improve somewhat soon."
* Lenin's note was sent to V.V. Fomin along with L. Khalagov's certificate on the progress of loading grain cargoes, which could not be found.
On March 2, V. Fomin's report on "The Protection of the Bridge between Skatrinburg and Perm" was on the agenda of the Council of Labor and Defense [STO], postponed to the next meeting, but not heard in those days. On March 4, the STO heard L.M. Sklianksy's report "On the Reorganization of the Protection of Railway Tracks to Combat Banditry."
4 In response to Lenin's request on the back of his letter, V. Fomin replied on March 2, 1921, as follows: "The picture painted by Khalatov is generally correct.
For now, there is no reason to believe that a traffic jam may re-form in the Southeast. The NCFTH road receives relatively regularly. The speed
4mm*G food routes has doubled, 58 versts during stagnation, and 108 versts at the moment. The only danger on the road is that some delay may occur with routine repairs, but all measures are being taken to prevent this. 2) The issue of protecting lines of communication is the most important issue at the present and immediate moment. It is necessary to pay close attention to Omsk, Perm, Northern, Samara-Zlatoust, Southeastern, Donetsk, Vladikavkaz and Volga, which in
1/2 - 2 months will be the only source of fuel, helping to maintain railway traffic.
We are doing everything we can on our part. Grouping, [of] troops, and I am observing directly."

NOTE TO E.M. SKLIANSKY
5/III
[1921
] p.
Secret.

Comrade Sklyansky!
Where is Mironov now?
How is the matter now?

Lenin.
1 Sklyansky E. M. - Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military
Council of the Republic.
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2 Sklianksy's request was made by Lenin in connection with his receipt of the following telegram: "17/2 - 21. According to the report of the Okrvoenkom of Ust-Medveditsky, Comrade Paukov, according to the information he has, for the correctness of which he vouches, the former commander of the 2nd Cavalry Mironov, who had arrived on leave in the Ust-Medveditsky district, was preparing a widely organized uprising against the Soviet authorities in the district. Local residents, local military units, allegedly parts of the 21st Caucasian Division, arriving at this time, through the Arched station to Kamyshin, parts of the 15th Caucasian Division, were to take part in the uprising. 18/2 Okrvoenkom Mironov was secretly arrested and sent in a separate car with an indictment to Moscow. Some representatives of the executive committee were allegedly involved in the conspiracy. At present, the Doncheka is arresting the participants in the conspiracy, all those arrested no later than 18/2 must already be delivered to Mikhailov. Chief of Staff Pugachev. Military Commissar Pechersky."
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NOTE TO L.B. KAMENEV AND I.V. STALIN*.
March 9, [19]21
To L.B. Kamenev and I.V. Stalin.

I ask you to pay attention to Dzerzhinsky's
1 messages about Siberia.
The danger that our people will not be able to get along with the Siberian peasants is extremely great and formidable. Chutskaev
a, despite all his good qualities, is undoubtedly weak, completely unfamiliar with military affairs, and at the slightest aggravation, a catastrophe may threaten there. I think that it is necessary to discuss the question of sending Iv. N. Smirnov
11 to Siberia no later than the beginning of summer.
He will, of course, resist very strongly, but if there is no other candidate who knows both Siberia and military affairs,
who is certainly able not to be confused in a difficult situation, then I think that sending Smirnov will be absolutely inevitable.

Lenin.
1 Dzerzhinsky F. E. - Chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission.
8 Chutskaev S. E. - Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Siberia.
a Smirnov I. N. - in 1920-21 member of the Central Committee of the RCP. After the defeat of Kolchak he worked in Siberia. In the 1921 discussion - a Trotskyist. At the X Congress,
at the insistence of Lenin, he was not included in the Central Committee. For a long time, he was one of the leaders of the Trotskyist opposition.
* The document is printed from a copy written by the secretary. There are notes on the margins: "Read by L. Kamenev. Read (against) Stalin, Read by V. Molotov. Read by Trotsky. Dzerzhinska n". Ed.

II. GOSPLAN QUESTIONS

GOSPLAN QUESTIONS
17 - 22 February 1921
The basis for the restoration of the national economy, according to Lenin's idea, was to be the electrification plan, approved
by the VIII Congress of Soviets. Therefore, the general planning commission,
which was created in February 4921, Lenin considered as an expanded GOELRO (State Commission for
Electrification of Russia).
By the time the issue of the general planning commission was discussed in the STO, on February 18, 4921, Lenin had the
theses projects on the methods of creating a unified economic
plan, presented by V.P.
Milyutin, Yu.
Larin and L.N.
Kritsman. In connection with the discussion of the same issue, a dispute was held on February 17 at the Socialist Academy on V.P.
Milyutin's report.
On the same day, February 17, Lenin, with the participation of G.M. Krzhi
zhanovsky and A.I. Rykov, worked on a draft of the main point of the STO resolution on the creation of a general planning commission and a
preliminary list of its members. Both of these documents (see pp. II3-24) were sent out to all members of the Council of Labor and Defense on the evening of February 17.
The protocol and transcript of the STO meeting held on February 18 were not kept, and no official documents about this meeting have been preserved.
Only a few notebook leaves (published below) have survived, on which Lenin wrote down individual positions of his opponents and a plan for the closing remarks.
As can be seen from the article "On a Unified Economic Hymn," from Lenin's notes printed below and from I.V.
Stalin's letter to him, who fully shared Vladimir Ilyich's point of view (see the collection "Stalin," Giz, 4929, p. 43), the opponents objected to recognizing the GOELRO plan as the main plan for restoring the entire national economy as a whole and against Lenin's demand to immediately begin practical implementation of the GOELRO plan.
On February 18, a decision on the general planning commission was not made, and the issue was postponed to an emergency meeting of the STO on
February.