V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ROGOZHSKO-SIMONOVSKY SOVIET OF DEPUTIES

Comrades K. Ukhanov and N. Borisov

17/VII.

Dear Comrades:

I thank you very much for the book you have sent me [1]
and for your friendly letter. I have read the book with
interest. It will undoubtedly be important for the history
of how the Soviet power was organised.

I am sending you a copy of the just published law on the district economic councils and the “Mandate”. I hope
that you will get a statistician in advance, give him the
material, verify his work, add to it yourself (together with
essays by some other local Rogozhsko-Simonovsky comrades, if any are willing to write them) and publish next
autumn a report on the content and the results of local
economic work by your district Soviet of Deputies. I hope
that you will display initiative in this and that your district will be among the first in developing local economic
construction.

I thank you once again, and send you communist greetings.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to a pamphlet by K. Ukhanov and N. Borisov, Life and Activity of the Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District of Moscow (March 1917– January 1921 ), a copy of which with Lenin’s markings is at the
Central Party Archives. On the document there is the following
inscription in Lenin’s hand: “Former Dynamo Works, Leninskaya Sloboda (Simonovo), Moscow.”