V. I.

Lenin

Viva voce voting

26.XI.1921

Comrade Molotov, Could you try to settle two questions in the Politbureau by telephone:

1) That Sokolnikov be appointed member of the Board of the
People’s Commissariat for Finance and member of the Finance Commission on
condition that he remains Chairman of the Turkestan Bureau and is obliged to travel to Turkestan when necessary
until things there have been fully put in order. (If this does not get a
majority, I shall have to put the matter for consideration to the whole
Politbureau).

2) Today we rejected my motion offhand [1] and I agreed to withdraw it. But I now see that I was too
hasty and I renew it:

That 1) Pyatakov; 2) Rukhimovich; 3) Bogdanov (or his deputy Smilga) be
directed to submit to the Politbureau within two weeks a plan (or
regulations or theses) of relations between the gubernia economic
conferences and the large enterprises located in the given gubernia and
subordinated directly to the centre in

Moscow. [2]

[ We ourselves cannot draft it. It is a universal question.

All the commissariats will have to be questioned. It must be
worked up quickly. Start with the Donets Gubernia Economic Conference.]

Lenin