Lenin: A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)












V. I.

Lenin



A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)[1]


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Written: November 9, 1921

Published:

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI.

Printed from the manuscript.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Second Printing,

Progress Publishers,

1971,

Moscow,

Volume 42,

page 362b.


Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov


Transcription\Markup:
D. Walters


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Comrade Mikhailov,

Please have this sent round to the members of the Pout-bureau.

My personal opinion is that the whole of V. Milyutin’s plan should be
rejected as being worthless and absolutely unconsidered.

I propose it be rejected.

Lenin

9/XI.




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Notes





[1]

This note was written on Chicherin’s letter to the Politbureau in which
he reported that the question of denationalising Soviet Russia’s foreign
trade was raised at the Baltic Economic Conference (held at Riga, from
October 28 to 31, 1921). V. P. Milyutin, the head of the
R. S.F. S. B. delegation at the conference, submitted a paper on this
question which was sent to the Politbureau. Milyutin’s plan boiled down to
abolishing the monopoly of foreign trade. On November 10 the Politbureau,
on Lenin’s motion, rejected Milyutin’s proposal (see also Collected
Works, Vol. 44, Fifth Russian Edition, pp. 427-30; present edition,
Vol. 33, pp. 375-78 and pp. 455-59).




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