V. I.

Lenin

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To:   A. V. LUNACHARSKY

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky
Copy to the Central Peat Board

In order to expand the output of peat, there must be a large-scade development of propaganda—leaflets,
pamphlets, mobile exhibitions, films, publication of textbooks;
teaching about the peat industry to be introduced as a compulsory subject in schools and higher technical colleges;
textbooks must be written; study groups must be sent abroad annually.

Specifically it is necessary (1) to instruct the State
Publishing House to print by April 15, 100,000 copies of Peat ,
a pamphlet of 1 1/2 signatures, delivered by the Central Peat
Board on February 8 this year to Comrade Mordvinkin at the Agitation Department, and to accept from the
Central Peat Board another three pamphlets and leaflets,
for publication by May 1; 15,000 copies of the pamphlets
to be issued to the Central Peat Board for distribution.

(2) To instruct the Film Department to make 12 films in the course of May—under the direction of the Central
Peat Board—showing how peat is secured (for Russia, the
Ukraine, the Urals, Byelorussia and Siberia).

(3) To instruct the Central Board for Vocational
Training to draw up by June 1, together with the Central Peat
Board, a draft course of compulsory lessons in schools and
higher educational establishments on the peat industry.

Please send me copies of your instructions, and the replies
of the institutions and persons concerned, with an indication of the dates.

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