Lenin: 484. TO A. O. ALSKY












V. I.

Lenin



484



To:   A. O. ALSKY


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Written: Written on November 5, 1921

Published:

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII.

Printed from the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1976,

Moscow,

Volume 45,

page 369b.


Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov


Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala


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Comrade Alsky:

I am sending this request of Shvedchikov’s on to you.

Unless we pull it out now, the paper industry will
collapse for a whole year. We must do our utmost.

Let me know what you are doing. Perhaps I should
appoint an emergency
commission?[1]

5/XI. Lenin




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Notes





[1]

Written on a note from the C.P.C. agent for the paper industry
and printing production, K. M. Shvedchikov, who requested the
“setting aside of a reserve monetary fund for the publishing
business (Gosizdat, Glavbum, Poligrafotdel and Tsentropechat) in the
amount of up to 319,000 million rubles”; and “that an advance
payment of 60,000 million rubles be made before the 15th of
November proportional to the applications of separate establishments”.

This question was examined by an emergency commission under
the Budget Estimates Administration of the People’s
Commissariat for Finance on November 9. It said the request was not
sufficiently well grounded, and instructed representatives of the
S.E.C. and the People’s Commissariat for Finance to verify it
and give their conclusion.

On November 9, Shvedchikov sent another letter to Lenin (see
Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 54,
Document 33).




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