V. I.

Lenin

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To:   I. T. SMILGA

Comrade Smilga:

I have read the draft. I enclose my amendments. [1]

My insistent advice is

1) not to make the move in your name (why tease the
geese? Why make the possible unanimity of one and all more difficult ?).

2) Make the move only on behalf of the S.E.C. Presidium .

S.E.C. Chairman Bogdanov will introduce it in the C.C.

3) Another piece of advice: agree with Krzhizhanovsky
the wording of the point on Gosplan (your wording is wrong;
I shall not accept it).

The basic point can be easily agreed, and then the thing
should be moved on behalf of the two presidiums: the
S.E.C. Presidium + Gosplan Presidium.

Please reply on 11/VII.

With communist greetings, Lenin

P.S. Perhaps it should also be shown to the People’s

Commissariat for Food and the Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection and the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade.

Think this over and reply on 11/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