It is necessary to add further:

1) the responsibility of residents for the failure to elect a manager and his "deputy";

2) — the same for the failure to elect a control commission;

3) the obligation of both the manager and the deputy, and the control commission to ensure that there is a daily responsible duty officer on hand (either the manager himself, or the deputy, or a member of the control commission)

in addition to specially hired persons (janitor, etc.), should such exist;

4) the responsibility of residents in buildings with fewer than 10 apartments.

How is one to establish the responsibility of residents? This must be thought through and a method found.

19/VIII. Lenin

Written 19 August 1921

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript