September 16, 1921
Vladimir Ilyich!
I propose to transfer the question of M. Peshkov to me. I hope to resolve it in the direction suggested by Comrade Litvinov (scholarship for study)...
Agreed,
V. Molotov

TELEGRAM TO K. E. VOROSHILOV*
May 5, 1921
I request you to give instructions to the command staff of the Konarmiya and specifically check that during the transition of the Konarmiya, every possible assistance is provided to the local food supply organizations, given the urgent need for rapid aid to Moscow with bread.
Lenin

LETTER TO D. I. KURSKY
People's Commissar of Justice
May 12, 1921
From the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary for the Supply of the Red Army and Navy, a petition dated May 10 of this year, attached in copy, has arrived at the STO, disclosing completely secret information about the numerical strength of the army. With a more fortunate redaction of the petition, it would have been possible to avoid disclosing information about the numerical strength of the army. In addition, the correspondence arrived not in a secret envelope and was sent not by courier but by mail. As a result, it was opened on the incoming journal of the office management and could have been disclosed, passing through the post office.
I request an investigation.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.

DIRECTIVE OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU FOR THE PRESS
Until May 15, 1921
1) The population of the capitals and the central industrial region will once again experience a prolonged period of deterioration in the food situation. This time, the supply crisis will last for about a month, from May 15 to June 10-15, and will be expressed in a reduction of the ration for the working card "A" to 2/3 of a pound and for the rest of the population to 7/8 of a pound per day.
2) The immediate causes of the deterioration in the food situation in the capitals and the central industrial region are as follows: a) organized looting of grain by gangs at state collection points and on railways, b) temporary disruption of transport and the food apparatus in Siberian provinces and some other regions, from which the main mass of grain has recently come, c) overuse of seed material in several provinces against the planned amount for the purpose of expanding sowing, and d) underloading of food products for consuming regions, resulting from the necessity to increase the supply of the working population in producing provinces.
3) The last two reasons, taken by themselves, could not have had a painful effect on the supply of the population of the capitals and the central industrial region. The error made in this case * On the original, written by V. I. Lenin, there is his instruction to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic: "Please arrange to send by cipher and return to me. May 5. Lenin".