26. IX. 1921.

Comrade Gorbunov!

In connection with articles that have appeared in the newspapers concerning the exhibition of the Main Land Economy Administration 253 and its reports, I ask you to quickly gather additional official information.

I need to find out what (reports, materials, etc.) and where is available immediately.
(a) In the Main Land Economy Administration.

Reports (for the first 1/2 of 1921)?
(according to "Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn'" of 22/IX)
Any others? Month by month?

By quarter?

(b) In the Supreme Council of the National Economy — the same or different?
(c) In the Central Statistical Administration?
(d) In the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection?
(e) In particular in the Moscow Soviet of Labor and Defense?
and the Petrograd " " ?

Request all of these (and perhaps some other institutions as well) by telephone, by telephonogram (so there is a document), and let them answer today what they have.

Tell me the summary at 3 3/4 o'clock.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript