Beketovo village, Bulgakovskaya volost, Ufimsky district 15 thousand desyatin (all land). (5000) they want to take away in favor of artels, collective farms, state farms...1*(2 state farms) things are quite bad.

[State farm

300 desyatin in the Poddubovsky state farm, although 900 desyatin.

|| Great village, we should settle down

{the land surveyor Tsygankov as if the land is not fortified}

|| (term of non-division) 9 years is not enough, add 20 years.

The [peasants] do not agree to join either communes or labor artels, but we have been ploughing this land

[[ They haven't heard that it's forbidden to take them to the communes...].

Every day they drive ...>200 trains a day.

The wagons are even worse than sweeping. Life is not life, they are driven to work, especially in the forest. They allow the priest to go to school after class....

| You can't teach God's law in a private house until you are 16 years old.

[[305 yards]] especially women, unclothed, without axes, etc.)

No salt, no kerosene it's worse at school, they don't give lessons ... don't ask... dick

2 times a pound of salt in 1920.

As for the seeds, they are afraid that they will divide them equally (and let them "from one furrow").

To sow: spring seed on ½ of winter seed

[[Prodagits (unremittingly) explain that everything is the people's property...Moscow] rabochers. Golovachev

{Potatoes are available, but far from enough for everyone

{surovo; grumbles; armed; if a word is to be said, asks: no word for the kulaks; all de say: squeeze the kulak

{the detachments are feared unheard of, searches unheard of}. Everything is shaken up... They took away the soap (the girl's).....

I have fulfilled the meat ration, - and they also took one cow + four sheep.....

[Please release: Ilya Fyodorovich Simonov, chairman of the village council in the village of Beketova. Arrested for non-fulfillment of harvest assignments on sweepstakes. Sentenced for 3 years. Another for 5 years] to the Ufa Provincial Prodkom.

[[ Eggs from the tithe!!!]]

We have a labor artel in 17 households in our village on communist principles, they break down the machines and abandon them

{no scythes, sickles, nails}

{Set for 1 fathom of firewood a certain amount (salt, kerasinu, manufactory).... Salt water is not given ... Salt presses most of all

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 21861 - autograph.

1* Further V.I.Lenin crossed out: "((about 440))".

On March 11, 1921 V.I.Lenin and People's Commissar for Food A.D.Tsyurupa sent a telegram to the chairman of the Ufa provincial executive committee with a request to send peasants from the village of Beketovo, Bulgakov volost, Ufa uyezd A.R.Shaposhnikov and T.G.Kondrov "to Moscow for advice on important matters concerning the peasantry and peasant economy" (Lenin V.I. Vol, vol. 52. p. 311). A.R.Shaposhnikov and I.G. and T.G. Kondrov arrived. They talked with Lenin on March 19. In addition, they met with the chairman of the VTsIK M.I.Kalinin and Tsyurupa, they were present at the meeting of the II session of the VTsIK on March 20, at which the draft decree on the replacement of food and raw materials deployment by a natural tax was adopted on the basis. On March 22, signed by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin), the peasants were given certificates stating that they had been summoned by Lenin to Moscow "for conversation and advice" and that their explanations and answers revealed "a conscientious and honest attitude to the case" (ibid., p. 105). In Ufa, at the provincial non-partisan peasant conference, they reported on their trip and meeting with Lenin.