[No later than March 16, 1921]

In order to criticize, one must have a consultative voice. Two votes have been given to each People's Commissariat: ergo*, come to an agreement with Krestinsky.

Guest tickets are with Avanesov through Krestinsky.

1 Written on a note from D. P. Bogolepov to V. I. Lenin requesting that he be given a ticket to the Party Congress (apparently referring to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b)). "If you give me a note for the Congress," wrote Bogolepov, "I will seek an opportunity to criticize our economic policy."

D. P. Bogolepov worked in finance and teaching.

INSTRUCTION TO SECRETARY
[March 19, 1921]

Roy is asking for a meeting.

Call him and arrange [it] for Monday evening (21/III) or Tuesday.

1 The document was written on a letter to V. I. Lenin from Indian communist Manabendra Nath Roy dated March 19, 1921, requesting a second audience (see also the present collection, p. 348).

NOTE TO A. D. TSYURUPA

Comrade Tsyurupa! I request that you make this public in the commission and note down its conclusions and your own conclusion in two words*.

24/III [1921] Lenin

1 This note was written on a report by S. V. Malyshev, a representative of the Revolutionary War Council of the Turkestan Front and former manager of a barge-shop on the Volga, concerning the organization of mobile commodity-exchange stations.

* — therefore.