V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53; en:CW/CW35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To Comrade Teodorovich (People’s Commissariat for Agriculture) and to the State Publishing House

7. VIII.

Of the new books I have received from the State Publishing House
Sem. Maslov: *The Peasant Economy*. 1921. 5th edition! (or 4th edition).

From a glance it is clear that this is a thoroughly bourgeois, nasty little book, befuddling the peasant with ostentatious bourgeois “learned” lies.

Almost 400 pages and not a word about the Soviet system and its policy—about our laws and
measures for the transition to socialism, etc.

Only a fool or a malicious saboteur could have passed this book.

I request an investigation and that you name to me all persons responsible for editing and publishing
this book.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin)