The theses were adopted by the Central Committee of trade unions, by all the Central Committees of the unions individually, and finally, on July 23, unanimously by the joint meeting of the communist factions of the unions, the presidium of the MGSPS, and representatives of the Petrograd professional movement. A commission was elected at this meeting, which together with the Central Committee commission, finalized the text of the theses, which were then adopted at the plenary session of the Central Committee of the RCP on August 9 with minor amendments. On the same day, the theses passed through the Sovnarkom as "Instructions from the Sovnarkom on Implementing the Principles of the New Economic Policy." Below are published all documents related to the Sovnarkom resolution on the new economic policy in chronological order.

## AMENDMENTS TO THE THESIS OF VSNKh
[July 9 or 10, 1921]

Draft Resolution of the Presidium of VSNKh dated 6/VII.1921.

I.
1. The acute crisis of our national economy, into which we entered in May, is primarily a consequence of the [food catastrophe] severe food situation. At the same time, we encounter a series of phenomena without whose elimination the Soviet Republic will not be able to cope either with the problem of developing productive forces or with the struggle against hunger. The essence of these phenomena lies in the lagging of our economic policy behind the new economic course proclaimed at the Xth Party Congress and the spring party conference. The emerging deterioration of our economic situation (the decline in productivity of the Donbass, metallurgy, etc.) requires a decisive [revision of some of the basic provisions of our] acceleration of the transition to this new economic policy; otherwise, we will be forced to do so several months later under qualitatively worse conditions.

2. [The main shortcoming] One of the main shortcomings of the current economic policy is the absence of an economic subject and, as a result, rational management of industry. This is felt first and foremost in the area of supply. Food supplies are obtained: a) through ration cards and norms of the People's Commissariat for Food, b) theft from factories and enterprises, c) as a result of in-kind incentives through cooperatives, d) as a result of the realization of the natural fund by the enterprise itself or by workers. Work and special clothing are distributed by trade unions; technical and material supplies come from the Chief Committees. Enterprises are supplied with food and work and special clothing not according to their productivity but according to their needs. That is, the connection between supply and productivity is not direct but indirect. (Production increases or decreases, while supply remains approximately the same). This system was a consequence of the military period of our revolution when the Republic was a "military camp." In a besieged fortress, it is quite understandable [such a broad development of precisely consumer communism. At present, this system must be decisively revised and brought into line, above all, with the interests of production,] there was a desire to supply everyone as evenly as possible, to feed and support them, while it was impossible to take up the restoration of production. Now the task is different; it is necessary at all costs to restore production, to achieve the development of productive forces.

3. A direct consequence of this is the complete vagueness of our economic activity. We throw out a mass of food and other resources with a negligible productive effect, unproductively, to the wind. This inevitably must lead us to defeat on the economic front if we do not quickly and decisively reorganize ourselves in accordance with the new conditions.

4. It is necessary to reorganize immediately on the following principles. First, it is necessary to establish, as a principle, that in the field of the national economy, the state gives nothing to anyone for free. Second, all the worker's supply should be included in his wages, which, for the part that remains, should be significantly increased and should approach the pre-revolutionary standards. Third, all the received worker's supply should be divided not by the number of workers but by the unit of produced product, except for those industries and branches where, due to the very nature of the work, this does not seem possible.