V. I.

Lenin

529

To:   THE FOREIGN LITERATURE COMMITTEE [1]

Forlitcom

Copy to Comrade Pyatakov — for information and co-ordinating with Forlitcom
the question of allocating the necessary credit in gold for periodical subscriptions

I propose for, and for the account of, the Central Board
of the Coal Industry of the Donets Basin

1) urgent subscriptions for sets of all mining magazines
—German, British and the United States, for 1917–1921;

2) regular subscriptions for and mailing to the Central
Board of:

a) all mining magazines issued in German, French and
English;

b) new publications of the most important books on
mining;

c) The Economist
magazine. [2]

Please send a report on execution to C.P.C. business manager Comrade Gorbunov .

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars