V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decisions for the C.P.C. on The Financial Plan and Plan of Emission for 1922

1

1) The Finance Commission shall be directed to submit by Tuesday,
15.XI., an estimate in gold rubles covering all and every form of revenue,
including the tax in kind, fuel, etc., etc., — to submit a calculation in gold rubles showing distribution of
expenditure by commissariats (absolute figures)—in comparison with
similar figures before the war (average for 5 or 10 years) and with
approximate figures for 1919 and 1920.

2) To submit 2 variants: 240 and 300 million gold ruble volume of
emission.

3) To compare quota distribution of the general budget (both material
and monetary) with the distribution of rations under the food plan of the
C.L.D.

4) Drawing up of the budget on the basis of the given plan (with an
emission variant of 240 million gold rubles) to be started at once.

5) Assignment for the State Planning Commission? The Central
Statistical Board? or an enlarged commission?

6) Time limit-20.XII.

7) Could we not publish some of the Finance Commission’s findings?

especially calculation (in goods) of the pre-war ruble, and so. [1]

| Written November 5, 1921 | |
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| First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI | |
| Printed from the manuscript | |

2

1) The Finance Commission and the State Planning Commission shall be
directed to complete the estimate of revenue and expenditure on the broad
terms at present accepted by the Finance Commission, as well as the
comparison ordered by the C.P.C. in its decision of November 5.

2) These calculations to be presented in the form of summarised
statements viewed as preliminary data for shaping the state budget for the
year

1922. [2]

| Written November 18, 1921 | |
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| First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV | |
| Printed from the manuscript | |