V. I.

Lenin

Decision of the C.L.D. on the Question of Reports and Diagrams for the C.L.D. [1]

October 21, 1921

A commission consisting of comrades Gorbunov, Smolyaninov,
Avanesov (with the right of replacement) and Krumin and with the
co-operation of the Central Statistical

Board, the State Planning Commission and the appropriate departments, shall
be directed to submit to the C.L.D. within one week the draft of a decision
calling for all departments to present statistical data and diagrams
monthly to the C.L.D. pertaining especially to economic activities, their
analysis, working up and formulation of practical conclusions.

Comrade Gorbunov or Smolyaninov to be charged with summoning the
commission and reporting to the

C.L.D. [2]

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Notes:
[1]
Following the endorsement by the Presidium of the All-Russia Central
Executive Committee on June 30, 1921, of the “Instruc-tions of the Council
of Labour and Defence to Local Soviet Bodies” (see present edition,
Vol. 32, pp. 375-98) Lenin wrote a letter to the editors of Izvestia, Pravda, Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn and other newspapers on July 21 pointing
out the importance of “explaining in detail the significance which the
local economic conferences and the publication of reports for general
informa-tion has for both the application of the New Economic Policy in