V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v20;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LENIN MISCELLANY

Write to me sometimes with observations from the localities. How are the Siberian peasants receiving the tax? What are their other demands and moods? How is it with the workers?

With best wishes! V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

¹ Kayurov, V. N.—in 1921 worked in Tomsk on the construction of the Kolchugino railway.

Appendix.

NOTES ON A LETTER FROM V. KAYUROV OF MARCH 1, 1921

[March 24, 1921]

...The moment being experienced by the communist revolution is undoubtedly a difficult one...

...To save the revolution, extraordinary, heroic measures are needed, but at the same time reasonable ones. The implementation of these measures must also be reasonable, so as to gain time as far as possible...

...After all, the peasant, with his psychology, needs to know one thing: how much he must give from his harvest, how much he needs to sow in order to obtain, for his full disposal, a sufficient quantity of grain, in his opinion, for his “commercial” operations to independently supply his farm with everything necessary.

And by cleverly exploiting this natural “commercial streak” of his, it is easy, by the same “commercial” method, to pump out all the surpluses over and above the fixed tax...

84 I)

ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOWING CAMPAIGN.

AMENDMENTS TO THE TELEGRAM TO THE GUBPOSEVKOMS *

April 4, 1921.

According to reports from individual peasants, the sowing plans, when communicated to individual villages, have diverged greatly [in] some places from the crop ratio suitable for the given locality, and this is evidently due to errors in the distribution of area, and not to a desire to restore previously cultivated crops, or to introduce new ones suitable to local conditions.

Furthermore, given a shortage of suitable seed, some assignments prove impracticable and, [in] the event of insistent demands for the sowing of these particular crops, there arises the danger of under-sowing and, in general, of presenting the peasants with senseless demands that arouse discontent, ridicule and dis-

* The text of the telegram was typed. The amendments in the text made by Lenin, both here and in subsequent documents, are given in bolder type, deletions in small type. At the top of the margin there are registry marks: “Via the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture”, “By radio” and “To all Gubernia Executive Committees”. Ed.