V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v23;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

GRAIN PROCUREMENTS

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NOTE TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV \
4/IX [1921] Comrade Smolyaninov!
The question of commodity exchange is a most important question. I instruct you to keep an eye on it in the first place 1.
In particular:
1) find No. 97 of the *Food Gazette* 2 and attach it to this file;
2) propose to the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies to supplement these data of Khinchuk and have them printed;
3) send me the printed matter, speeding up the printing;
4) give a note in *Economic Life*, encouraging in every way the collection and publication of factual data on commodity exchange (how much, and for how much of this or that?).
1 Written in connection with the receipt from L. M. Khinchuk of information on the successes of the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies in the sphere of commodity exchange in three gubernias: Orel, Bryansk and Gomel.
2 In *Food Gazette* No. 97, June 17, 1921, an article by the manager of the vegetable department of the People’s Commissariat for Food, “The Experience of State Commodity Exchange.”

TELEGRAM TO THE TURKESTAN PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOOD * \
Tashkent, Turkestan People’s Commissariat for Food, copy to Turkestan Central Executive Committee
September 9 [1921]
I confirm [the] strict execution of the order signed by Deputy People’s Commissar for Food Bryukhanov on September 5, “No. 81958. [In] the first place send 600,000 poods [to] Krasnovodsk for Azerbaijan, for the grave food situation of the latter brooks no delay [in] immediate aid. [On] the progress of grain shipments report to the Council of People’s Commissars and the People’s Commissariat for Food. [01120]”
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin.
* The note was written by Lenin at the end of a report by L. M. Khinchuk, on the first page of which there is a notation by Lenin: “From Khinchuk to Comrade Smolyaninov. See overleaf.” The signature under Khinchuk’s report is underlined several times by Lenin. *Ed.*
** Printed from a typewritten copy; signature is in Lenin’s own hand. The telegram bears the visa of A. B. Khalatov. *Ed.*