NOTES ON DEBATES AT THE TENTH ALL-RUSSIAN CONFERENCE OF THE RCP(b)1

26-27 May 1921

26/V:

Vareikis... (Vitebsk Gubernia)

The apparatus is old, unserviceable.

There is no end. There is no lease and there will not be one.

They confuse denationalization: (in European newspapers).

They do not give any initiative to the localities.

Military period = Makar, invented by Lenin. No. Mistakes were made.

"Peasantry — a class"? or not?

You cannot deceive a class. So, an agreement? (not Zubatovism).

[[ Confused by the Mensheviks ]]

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Vasiliev (Tambov Gubernia): return the reproach to the Central Committee (for abstraction). Prodinspektor Svidersky: "Less initiative" = Svidersky. With the Commissariat of Food, as with the Supreme Council of National Economy and the All-Russian Council of Professional Unions.

Initiative is needed, but...

There are gramophones, there is a successful experience with cooperatives.

[ A capable person and a wicked one ]

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Larin: "Emancipation" from the "yoke of functionality"!! Carpenter's workshop in the Tverskoy courtyard. Manufactures — to the Main Forestry Committee!.. "Freedom for brooms." — Leases... to interested departments!

(Larin)...

Lenin's theses of 16/V coincide with mine... Collective supply...

{ "Theory". 1.1920 (Sovnarkhoz Congress?): 1/2 requisition, 1/2 exchange. Therefore, the Central Committee should take a lighter, more tolerant attitude towards "collective supply"...

Larin goes to "caricatural things"...

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27/V.

Lesiman: (Volyn Gubernia). "We conduct commodity exchange" (the center hinders). Sometimes there is no cooperation.

Workers steal; they cry, but they steal. Workers say: you cannot build an economy.

Confusion: "after fulfilling the tax, free trade": when is "after"??

||| 10 pounds of salt for 1 pood of bread (with us). The Poles 1 pood 14 pounds of salt for 1 pood of bread.

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Khramov: Directives are vague, yet we are starting to gain experience...

We have a lot of bread... (but bagmen...)

Commodity fund with us is 1 million poods. (Textiles, iron; lipstick is poor).

We attract private entrepreneurs...

(Workers do not trust our economic policy

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Sosnovsky:

change in the economic program of the Supreme Council of National Economy: mass consumption goods.

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Evdokimov: against Larin.

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Osinovsky:

Three lessons: 1) seriously and for a long time (20-25 years?)           [ 25 : 5 ] then not by naked force, but "freedom of competition"...

entrepreneurship (the main virtue) for the common good.

Larin's system was implemented in Tula last year.

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1 The Tenth All-Russian Conference of the RCP(b) took place in Moscow on 26-28 May 1921. It was attended by 239 delegates. The conference mainly considered issues related to the implementation of the New Economic Policy.

The published notes were taken by V.I. Lenin on 26-27 May during the debates on his report on the food tax (see: Lenin, V.I. Collected Works, Vol. 43, pp. 299-316). In his concluding remarks, Lenin used these notes (see the plan of the concluding remarks — ibid., pp. 405-406, and the text of the speech — ibid., pp. 317-332).