V. I.

Lenin

368

To:   A. O. ALSKY [1]

Secret

5/IX.

Comrade Alsky:

There must be a close watch on the spending of the gold
stock.

Perhaps you could do the following:

have this table compiled.

In hand

Of this allocated ( =issue allowed^)

Unallocated stock in hand

Gold Stock by 7.XI.1917
7.XI.1918
” ” 1919
7.XI.1920
1.I.1921
1.VII.1921 or 1.IX (7.IX).1921

In other words, the table should give a full picture of the
amount issued and the available stock (by a definite date).

Let us draw up the table in such a way that the horizontal graphs should run on ( current statistics ) by months.
Let us have this mobile and regularly filled-in table be
kept over at your People’s Commissariat for Finance.

Send me a copy of it by 1.IX.1921, and then send in weekly additions (current expenditure).

The total must include all gold without any exceptions.

Please write me when you can let me have it.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.

£ Perhaps here we shall have to add two or three vertical graphs: amount already sent out of Russia, i.e., paid
out. Also perhaps: refused payment or reduced amount, etc.

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Notes:
[1]
A report on the gold stock and its expenditure was submitted to

Lenin by the People’s Commissariat for Finance. On September

14, 1921, the C.C. Politbureau instructed A. O. Alsky to see that all expenditures of the gold stock were strictly accounted for. See also this volume, Document 371; present edition, Vol.

42, p. 342.