V. I.

Lenin

NOTE TO G. I. KRUMIN [1]

Discuss the following, and let’s make a final draft:
That it should he recognised as absolutely necessary to pay particularly great attention to collecting information (both through special correspondents, without however
appointing them only for this purpose , and through all the
special representatives of the Council of Labour and Defence and the People’s Commissariats; and likewise—most
important of all—from the regular local reports to the appropriate bodies), information coming directly from local
bodies (works, mines, separate log camps, etc.). The collection and analysis of information coming, not only from
the Chief Boards, but from these organs operating on the
spot, must become one of the most important tasks of Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn .

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )