Printed from the manuscript. Ed.

LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

Table 1917–1921 the most tenacious.
It is unclear whether what was constructed (or commissioned) is listed separately for each year.
Or is it a total for all years?
1917 commissioned
2 stations — 2,480 kw
1918 in addition to that?
4,757 in addition to that?
1,648
1920 in addition to that
8,699 kw
1921 (for how many months?): 39 st. — 2,004 kw?
say in tons e.
Bash Lenin.

1 Dated before June 5, since from the content it can be concluded that
this is the first letter connected with the preparation of materials on electrification
for the III Congress of the Comintern.
2 Date established from the outgoing register of Lenin's secretariat.
3 Osadchiy N. S. was exposed for wrecking in 1930.
4 Sereda S. P. — member of the presidium of Gosplan.
5 In a letter to Lenin of June 10 or 11, G. M. Krzhizhanovsky wrote:
"After reading Larin's article (this refers to the article 'Secrets of Soviet Industry,'
published in issue 125 of Pravda of May 9), I felt a slight sting in my heel.... Yesterday
I wrote a reply, but came to the conclusion that it is unsuitable, because it has a polemical
tone. S. P. Sereda proposes the following plan: Write to Larin a politely venomous letter
from a group of Gosplan members with a proposal that he share his wise observations
about the methodology of Gosplan's work with the plenum of the latter. At the plenum
give him a dressing-down and publish the stenographic record of the session. I propose
to reply in the footnotes of the report that we are preparing ('On the Course of Our
Work') (arch. No. 7880)."
By "sting," apparently the following passage in M. Larin's article devoted to the question
of "introducing system into the work of our industry" was meant:
"...In reality this work ought to have been carried out by Gosplan, and upon its opening
in early April we proposed to it orally and in print to concentrate its attention first and
foremost on a practical review, branch by branch, of our entire economy. Unfortunately,
its activity instead acquired a somewhat academic character (if we do not count a few
outside experts brought in to review individual, particular questions on the program of
constructions, foreign trade, and so forth) — and so far has not produced a verification
and practically determined proposals concerning production programs for any significant
quantity of our factories."
6 The memo by N. N. Pashkov mentioned by Lenin was not found; in Ekonomicheskaya
Zhizn [Economic Life], No. 149 of July 10, 1921, an article by Pashkov entitled "Electrification
of Russia" was published, in which all the points listed by Lenin in his letter to
G. M. Krzhizhanovsky were covered.
Pashkov N. N. — engineer. In 1921, head of the electrical department of the Supreme
Council of the National Economy.