Vladimir Ilyich, should we make a report to you on the conference on higher educational institutions,
to you personally - or to the Politburo? There are no disagreements among us, but there are disagreements with the professoriate,
which stubbornly wishes to preserve autonomy.

Mikh. Pokrovsky

I cannot. Today I am leaving on sick leave. Talk to Molotov and, best
of all, write (after this conversation) 10 lines to the Politburo with the conclusion: approve such-and-such a directive.

Lenin

(I very much fear that the absence of a deputy for a major

specialist in

Glavprofobr is wrong! Your opinion?)

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Written on December 6, 1921

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript