V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v23;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LETTER TO I. I. RADCHENKO

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10.XI [1921]

Comrade Radchenko:

Get a definite date for Lezhava’s arrival (not Krasin’s hysterics, but a definite date).

We shall probably have to drop Krasin if he answers with hysterics.

We cannot drag things out indefinitely.

When did you send the text (of the decision on the Centrosoyuz and its participation in Foreign Trade)¹ to London? To Berlin? When was it received there? When did you get a reply and comments?

Lenin

¹ This apparently refers to the following preliminary decision of the Council of Labour and Defence of October 5, 1921, on the Centrosoyuz: “Instruct the Import Commission of the Council of Labour and Defence, under the chairmanship of Comrade Frumkin, with the participation of representatives of the Central Workers’ Co-operative, the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade and the Supreme Economic Council, to discuss in detail the question of the necessity of making purchases at frontier points and abroad with Soviet money and of establishing a procedure whereby these transactions may be effected without any delays...”

The final decision to grant the Centrosoyuz the right to participate in foreign trade was taken after an agreement had been reached between A. M. Lezhava, who had returned from London, L. M. Khinchuk and N. A. Bogdanov; the agreement was approved by the Council of Labour and Defence on December 2, 1921.

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23.XI.1921

Comrade Radchenko:

In reply to your No. 4821.

When Comrade Lezhava arrives, do not forget to work out a detailed instruction (on relations with the trade unions, both the Red and the Amsterdam, i.e., the yellow ones), and then work out a system of reports: how many times, and to which trade unions in which countries, the foreign trade officials have applied.

I shall expect an answer and a report in one to one and a half months.

FOREIGN TRADE

Lenin