V. I. Lenin

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

AGRICULTURE
113

I propose to convene immediately an emergency meeting of the
Minor Council of People’s Commissars, to summon the departments
concerned with an ultimatum and to settle the matter. The depart-
ments that have not submitted their conclusions are to be penalised
and this announced in the press.
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

1 On September 30, 1921, the Council of Labour and Defence, on the report of the
Supreme Economic Council (Chief Land Administration) on land improvement
work on the state farms of Moscow Gubernia, instructed the Minor Council of
People’s Commissars to find 2½ thousand million rubles for this purpose by
proportionally reducing allocations to all departments.

2801
INQUIRY ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOWING CAMPAIGN*
Circular.
Simbirsk, Astrakhan, Tsaritsyn, Saratov, Samara, Ufa, Uralsk,
Vyatka.
To the Gubernia Sowing Committees:
Marxstadt, Cheboksary, Krasnokokshaisk, Astrakhan, Izhevsk.
To the Regional Sowing Committees: Kazan, Orenburg, Sterlitamak.
To the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture.
[October 4, 1921]

During the past month you have ceased all information on the
progress of the sowing campaign and the fight against famine. The
People’s Commissariat for Agriculture, at present mainly engaged
in work to eliminate the effects of the crop failure, needs regular,
as full as possible information on your activities and the actual state
of agriculture in the gubernia more than in previous months. There-
fore, categorically confirming the earlier instructions on the time-
limits for information, I propose that you raise the information
apparatus to the proper level and, as a combat order, within forty-
eight hours of receipt of this telegram, send by telegraph the follow-
ing data: 1. The approved area of winter sowings; 2. The amount
of winter sowings actually done; 3. The number of desyatinas
ploughed for fallow; 4. The amount of seed received under orders
from the centre and through commodity exchange; 5. The amount
of seed actually distributed; 6. The method of distribution; 7. What
measures have been taken to save livestock, the results achieved

* Printed from a typewritten copy; signatures are in Lenin’s own hand; the
last paragraph was written by Lenin in his own hand. Ed.