V. I.

Lenin

486

To:   N. P. GORBUNOV

Comrade Gorbunov:

Perhaps I should appoint a commission:

1) Pokrovsky

2) Khalatov

3) Novitsky, to report to the Narrow C.P.C. on Monday
night and the Full C.P.C. on
Tuesday? [1]

Phone them up and let me know. [2]

5/ XI. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
That is November 7 and 8.— Ed.

[2]
Written in connection with the forthcoming C.P.C. discussion,
on November 10, 1921, of a report by A. B. Khalatov, member
of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Food, on
improving the living conditions of scientists. The C.P.C., taking
Khalatov’s report into consideration and approving it as
preliminary, set up a standing commission for an all-round inquiry
into and improvement of scientists’ living conditions.