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To:   THE ORGBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Comrade Molotov:

I request the Orgbureau or the C.C. Secretariat (with subsequent approval by the Politbureau over the
telephone) to allow me a month’s holiday, in accordance with
Dr. Getier’s orders, with attendance of Politbureau, C.P.C.
and C.L.D. sittings for two or three hours a day, two or
three times a week. I shall inform Comrade Molotov (within a few days) about the date of my
holiday. [1]

Lenin

8/VII.

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to Lenin’s amendments to the draft theses of the S.E.C.
on implementing the principles of the New Economic Policy; the
draft was adopted by the S.E.C. Presidium on July 6, 1921 (see
Lenin Miscellany XX , pp. 102–06). The text of the draft with
Lenin’s amendments was sent to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, I. T.
Smilga, N. P. Bryukhanov, A. M. Lezhava, V. A. Avanesov and
V. V. Schmidt. On July 11, the S.E.C. Presidium again examined
the draft theses, approved them and passed them on for discussion by the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee.

On July 12, 1921, the S.E.C. theses were examined by the C.P.C.,
and on July 16, by the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. The
latter adopted the theses as a basis and appointed a commission
to edit them. The commission produced a new variant, to which