V. I.

Lenin

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To:   A. O. ALSKY

Comrade Alsky:

Have any measures been taken to speed up and intensify
Gokhran’s work?

Have any Communists been mobilised? [1]

Result: within how many months and what exactly will be done? You will be to blame if the question keeps
“sticking”, because in that case it will be your duty to lodge
a complaint speedily , taking it up to the very top , i.e., the
Politbureau.

But I mean speedily.

The summer must be made use of, and you are letting it slip by: I warn you that the responsibility will fall
entirely on you. Hurry, and complain to me (about the
C.L.D.) and where I am not competent, to the Politbureau.

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Notes:
[1]
Having received this letter, Martens replied to Lenin that he
would immediately start working on the draft C.L.D. decision
concerning the industrial immigration of Russians from America and
would have it ready by six o’clock.

That same day, June 22, 1921, the C.L.D. declared that it was
desirable to “develop separate industrial enterprises or groups of
enterprises by leasing them to groups of American workers, and
industrially developed peasants, on contractual terms assuring
them of a measure of economic autonomy” ( Lenin Miscellany XX , p. 202) The C.L.D. also recognised the need to regulate the
industrial immigration of workers from other countries, and
instructed the S.E.C. to work out the terms for leasing enterprises
to these workers.