V. I.

Lenin

Remarks on the Draft Decree “On the Introduction of Payment for Newspapers”

Addendum necessary either in the form of a number of on
control (strictest) of circulation free of charge, or make this obligatory by special instructions (one § or this)

[1]

15/XI.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The decree introducing payment for newspapers was endorsed by the
C.P.C. on November 28, 1921. Under this decree all indi- viduals,
public institutions and organisations, and state institutions and
enterprises without exception were to be charged for newspapers. Lenin’s
motion formed the basis of Point 8 of the Decree, which directed the
People’s Commissariat for Education to draw up within a fortnight and
publish instructions covering control over the proper distribution of
newspapers to the network of educational institutions and the supply of
news- papers to the population (see Izvestia No. 275, December 7,
1921).