V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTES TO CHAPTER “FINANCIAL QUESTIONS”
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We must take advantage of this and reduce its autonomy in the sense of subordinating it not directly to the C.L.C., but through the P.C.W. (or through the P.C.F.T.?)
1 The date is based on the fact that the convocation of the gold commission was entrusted to V. A. Avanesov at a meeting of the C.L.C. on November 4, 1921, following a report by Yu. M. Lomonosov.
2 The C.L.C. Commission on the Gold Fund was organised at the beginning of November 1921. The commission’s function was the preliminary examination, study of materials and the giving of opinions, with the submission of draft decisions of the C.L.C., on applications from all departments and institutions for the release of funds in gold and foreign currency. The Gold Commission also handled the release of gold and other precious metals (platinum, silver, etc.) for scientific and technical purposes. In February 1922 the commission was liquidated and its functions transferred to a currency department specially organised within the People’s Commissariat for Finance.

NOTE TO A. B. KHALATOV
November 10, 1921. Khalatov, give a note (on the reserve fund of 16 million rubles) to the Secretary of the C.C., Mikhailov, today, with a precise proposal.
Lenin.
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LETTER TO N. P. GORBUNOV
12. XI. 1921
Comrade Gorbunov!
I ask you to read the enclosure 1 and send it to Comrade Alsky^ for the information of him and the members of the Board of the P.C.F., and then to Comrade Kamenev, chairman of the c[ommissi]on, which will probably have to deal with this question.
I have known Chebotarev2 since the 1880s, from the case of my elder brother, Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, who was hanged in 1887. Chebotarev is unquestionably an honest man. Politically, during the period of the first revolution and after it, he was a Cadet, but not an active one. I think that his conscientiousness can and should be relied upon. Now, it seems, he is politically close to the “Smena Vekh”.
Lenin.
1 The enclosure has not been found.
2 I. N. Chebotarev—organiser of the laboratory of electro-magnetic waves in the Crimea.
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* The note is in the hand of L. A. Fotieva. Ed.
** Printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.