V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) [1] (October 20, 1921)

Re § 4:

The People’s Commissariat for Finance and the Finance
Commission, as well as all comrades handling questions of home trade, shall
be directed to select within the shortest possible time a group of people with long practical experience in
capitalist trade for the purpose of consultation on currency
questions. These comrades shall be asked, within two days, to report in
writing whether they can fulfil this assignment and in what period of
time.

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Notes:
[1]
This draft was written by Lenin for the meeting of the Politbureau of
October 20, 1921, which had before it the request of the People’s
Commissariat for Finance that representatives of the Corn-missariat be
included intheC.L.D. and the regional and gubernia economic conferences
with a right to vote. The Politbureau rejected this request and adopted
Lenin’s motion. The last sen-tence in the manuscript is crossed out and was
not included in the decision.

A Finance Commission of the Central Committee, R,C.P.(B.) and the Council of People’s Commissars was set up on
Lenin’s proposal soon after the Tenth Congress of the Party for dealing
with questions of financial policy in the light of the New Economic Policy.