Date: 1921-12-02
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS, Volume 54

Copy to Comrade Pyatakov –

for your information and in order to coordinate the matter with the Comintern

regarding the disbursement of the corresponding gold-denominated credit

for the procurement of literature

I propose, at the expense of and through the Central Board of the Coal Industry of the Donets Basin:

1. To promptly subscribe to complete sets of all mining journals—German, English, and those published in the United States of North America—for the years 1917–1921;

2. To regularly subscribe to and forward to the Central Board:

a) all newly published mining journals in German, French, and English;

b) the most significant newly released books on mining;

c) the journal “The Economist” – No. 98.

Please submit a report on implementation to Comrade Gorbunov, Chief of Administrative Affairs of the Sovnarkom.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

Copies

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Written on December 2, 1921.

First published in 1933.

In Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXIII.

Printed from typewritten copy