V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v52; en:CW/CW35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

E. A. LITKENS

April 8, 1921

Comrades Lunacharsky, Pokrovsky and Litkens,

There are increasing signs that the work of the People’s Commissariat for Education is not improving in respect of systematic and planned effort, despite the directives of the Central Committee* and the special assignments of the Central Committee at the time of the reorganisation of the People’s Commissariat for Education.¹⁹⁹

When will the basic plan of work be drawn up? What questions will be included in this plan?

Will they be such as: the compilation of textbooks; the library network and its utilisation; model schools; teachers’ reports; syllabuses of courses, lectures and school studies; supervision of the degree to which syllabuses are actually carried out and the progress of studies?

Or other questions? What questions?

What questions are regarded as the most important, the most urgent?

Are there any decisions on this matter? What measures are being taken for systematic supervision of their fulfilment?

I request a brief reply.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)