V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. MOLOTOV FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. [1]

I find Kissin’s and Bryukhanov’s arguments correct. I vote for them. You can’t raise the question in the C.C.
before introducing it in the C.P.C.

31/8.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This is written on a note from the Managing Department of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee to Lenin, putting to the vote the question of authorising the Moscow Workers’ Co-operative to
procure potatoes directly from the peasants.

A. A. Kissin and N. P. Bryukhanov took a negative
attitude to this, believing, however, that the Moscow Co-operative
could have its agents and acceptance stations under the gubernia
societies. They held that, procurement in circumvention of
gubernia societies would tend to breed speculative commodity
exchange.