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Comrade Bogdanov! I ask you to send me all materials concerning the SKF (I gave you the list at the SNK) and a brief résumé of your view.

What is important is not the details of the contract, but (1) a comparison of the factory's present situation with the situation that will obtain under the concession agreement; (2) the valuation of the factory and, separately, the warehouse; (3) more detail concerning the warehouse. Its legal status now and after the concession*.

Lenin

* See the present volume, document 496. Ed.

Written 20 October 1921

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript