Date: 1921-05-26
Source: ru:PSS/v52

Source: PSS, Volume 52

ensuring food supplies and the like; electrification as well
(always in comparison with the preceding year and with the prewar period).

Without this, we will not be able to gain a comprehensive overview of economic life.

This is one of the foundational pillars of Gosplan’s work.

2) The Subcommission on Economic Statistics.

We must transform the Central Statistical Office into an analytical body for us—focused on current, practical matters rather than scholarly abstractions. For example:
How many surplus workers were employed?
How many factories were superfluous?
How should raw materials and labor resources be reallocated?
What is the economic role of the military?

Statisticians should serve as our practical assistants, not as scholastic theorists.

Please reflect on this and jot down your conclusions for me.

Yours, Lenin

In the book: G. M. Krzhizhanovsky.

“Commodity Exchange and Planned Work.”

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First published in 1924.

Moscow

Printed from manuscript