V. I. Lenin

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

25/V.

Comrade Krzhizhanovsky!

You should have been sent a draft of the “Instruction of the Council of Labour and Defence”.*

Consider it yourself (and the Presidium—all members of the State Planning Commission must be informed) from two points of view:

a) There are questions concerning your “department”: electrification and the local bodies of the State Planning Commission. Here a detailed analysis and study by all of you is necessary, in order to specify and supplement (resp.** alter) the list of detailed questions.

b) The rest is not within the province of the State Planning Commission, but much of it is essentially relevant to the State Planning Commission. The opinion of the State Planning Commission is desirable (not obligatory).

Lenin

P.S. Do you not think that for the study of the uyezd reports and of all economic reports in general, it will be necessary to set aside a group of members of the State Planning Commission? Or should several reports be distributed to all members of the State Planning Commission, making it obligatory for them to read and study them?

Incidentally: the study of current economic plans (1921) must be strictly individualised. Each member of the State Planning Commission is responsible for a particular aspect or part of this work. And conversely: for each aspect or part of the economic work of 1921 from the standpoint of the current plan, a certain person is responsible, in the sense of study. Be sure to send me this.