V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54; en:CW/CW42;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTES ON THE QUESTION

OF MOBILISING RAW MATERIAL RESOURCES

Meeting of February 26, 1921
Raw materials in 1920 Acreage under crop Yield was fibre cotton 725,000 des. 100,000 des. 12 m. poods up to 22
flax 1.1 m. » 0.3 m. » 25.6 m. » hemp 485,000 » 238,000 » 20 m. » wool 6 m. » (5)
1920 Collected
1920 fibre cotton 1.5 m. poods 0.9 m. poods
flax 2.9 m. » 2.0 m. » hemp 4.5 m. » 1.3 m. » wool 2.5 m. » 1.5 m. »
Hides unknown..
w a s?
28.5 m. poods levy 1920-1921
8.8 (30%) collected up to Feb. 1, 1921
Furs 40 m. skins - 17.5 levy (70% collection in Siberia (target)
30% including nomads)
- 0.6 collected
(= 4%)
In IX. 1920 transferred to the People's Commissariat for Food and it is ruining the job, being unable to apply commodity
exchange with the nomads.

We need:
cotton 20-24 m. poods
wool 5 m. poods

flax 12 m. poods
hemp 15 m. poods
. = 56 m. p. total textile raw materials
. = 56 m. p.
we have 21% of requirements can be covered by the harvest
Stock 14.8 m. poods in warehouses (now II.1921)
Measures (r e m e d i e s):

1) freedom of local exchange of grain for flax, etc.;

2) the principle of the levy, developing the peasant's energy to increase the yield;

3) prohibit the processing of textile seeds for oil (at present prohibited);

4) extract seeds from the population to increase sowing
{guarantee it a certain part of the yield;

5) bonuses for improved processing;

6) ((organisational measure))
the broadest enlistment of the population in the improvement of raw materials (artels, associations,
etc.);

7) encouragement of small, tiny plants for processing raw materials.
wool:

8) give bonuses to the Kirghiz, even if only 1 arshin of manufactured goods per 1 pood of wool
Oct. 1, 1920 transferred *
to the People's Commissariat for Food, it ruined

* In the margin of the manuscript there is a pencil note by Lenin: "Show me the raw materials question in the Council of People's Commissars when this question comes up." Ed.