FINANCIAL ISSUES
1 93 publishing it is undoubtedly useful. On page 23, line 5 from the top, I advise replacing the word “мордобой” [rough handling] with the word “бойня” [slaughter]. If there is polemic on certain points of Your pamphlet, this will only be useful. I ask You to prepare by Monday, or by Tuesday, a draft of the briefest directive from the Central Committee regarding the maximum acceleration of the introduction of taxes. Send the draft in the name of Com. Smolianinov or Fotieva to the Council of People's Commissars.
Lenin.

MEMORANDUM TO L. B. KAMENEV
To Kamenev only.
[December 24, 1921]
I consider Sokolnikov's pamphlet "State Capitalism and the New Financial Policy" to be very successful. I think that you need to direct all efforts to liquidate our supreme economic commission and all its subcommittees as quickly as possible. I am very afraid that we are dragging out the matter with verbosity, whereas all attention needs to be directed to the immediate implementation of practical steps and verification of their results.
Lenin.
1 The Economic Commission of the Council of People's Commissars was created on December 6, 1921, consisting of L. B. Kamenev (chairman), A. D. Tsyurupa, D. I. Kursky, E. A. Preobrazhensky, and V. V. Schmidt. The purpose of the commission was to prepare for the Council of Labor and Defense and the Council of People's Commissars and to accelerate work on systematizing and further developing legislation in the field of industry, agriculture, the budget, and transport.
* Printed from a machine copy. Gsd.