Comrade Solovyev!

Could you not provide more detailed data on the distribution of Communists across Soviet positions (excluding the Red Army):
People's Commissariat, Department, Subdepartment, etc.,
and more detailed information on the character and type of work.

At least for Moscow (it is most important to distinguish Moscow from the uezd, if this is possible; Moscow is the chief center) and for Petrograd.

My impression is that the statistics on RKP members includes far too many trifles, the "usual" ones found in any statistics, but unimportant ones. What is important to us is detailed information on the distribution across Soviet positions.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Written 5 September 1921

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript