V. I.

Lenin

553

To:   N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Comrade Bryukhanov , People’s Commissariat for Food

Please let me have the briefest replies, one or two pages,
not more, to some of the questions to enable me to give a more precise formulation of the corresponding sections of
my report at the Congress of Soviets and to insert some of
the most characteristic figures.

What results in your opinion would it be useful for me to cite in my report at the Congress of Soviets? On the
results of the tax in kind? On the concealment of arable
land? Or about the most vital and pressing tasks in this
sphere?

It would be well if we could show, briefly and visually,
the relief for the peasants from the tax in kind as compared
with the surplus-requisition system.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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