V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. D. KAISAROV AND I. I. IONOV

1) Commission Chairman Kaisarov
2) Ionov
Petrograd

25/VI.1921

Concerning the School Atlas

I have received the material on the atlas. I scanned it
and made some additions (red ink in the text).

Please send me:

1) A calendar programme of the work (not under the
best conditions—“if” we are supplied this and that—but under the present); in particular: when the work will be
finished.

2) Allocation of the work between the members of the
commission.

3) Text and maps, when ready, before they are sent to
the printers.

4) Conclusion on the question whether it is desirable
and possible to enlist Anuchin and Borzov for this work
(for what reasons—in the event of a positive and a negative
answer to the questions).

5) Conclusion on whether the members of the commission
or its chairman will undertake the additional work described in the attached copy of my letter to Pavlovich.
Pavlovich has refused. I have asked a comrade in Germany
to do this, but have not yet had his reply. [1]

It would be fine if the commission did this. [2]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.

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Notes:
[1]
See present edition, Vol. 35, Document 283.— Ed .

[2]
In a reply letter on July 5, 1921, V. D. Kaisarov said that a
special scientific commission for compiling a geographical atlas
undertook to elaborate the questions outlined in Lenin’s letter to
M. P. Pavlovich (see present edition, Vol. 35, Document 283), and
asked that two of its members should be sent to Berlin to acquire
new material on the West European economy, noting that it was
desirable to enlist Moscow specialists in compiling the atlas. The
letter said that the commission’s programme and calendar plan
of work would be sent to Lenin shortly.

On this letter Lenin made his remarks and underlinings and
wrote a number of instructions to Lydia Fotieva (see this
volume, Document 140, and Lenin Miscellany XX , pp. 321–22).