Beginning of December 1921
Comrade Molotov!
If I am needed by you, I earnestly ask you not to hesitate to call.
There is a telephone (the switchboard operators on the 3rd floor know
and Fotieva); papers can be sent through Fotieva. I can quite
easily come: I travel willingly, it takes less than an hour.
Lenin

December 25, 1921
Urgently to Comrade Molotov
Comrade Molotov! I have reviewed, made minor corrections (in red
ink). I fully agree. It is only necessary to survey all the departments
touched upon here regarding the details of the formulation*.
Lenin
NOTE TO M. N. POKROVSKY**
December 6, 1921
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: to approve such-and-such directive.
Lenin (I am very afraid that the absence of a deputy of a major
specialist in the Chief Professional Education Administration is incorrect!
Your opinion?).
*
The reference is to the draft resolution of the IX All-Russian Congress
of Soviets on the restoration of agriculture.
** The note was written by V. I. Lenin in response to a question from M. N. Pokrov
sky: "Should we make a report to you on the conference on higher
educational institutions, to you personally—or to the Politburo? We have no disa-
greements between us, but there are disagreements with the professorship, stubbornly wishing to pre-
serve autonomy."

1921

REMARKS ON THE THESES ON THE UNITED FRONT*
December 6, 1921
I have read the draft theses and have no objections.
To supplement and partially modify the paragraph on the history of Bolshevism. It is incorrect that the split was only in 1910. It must be said
that formal splits with the Mensheviks, which took place in the spring
of 1905 and in January 1912, were replaced by semi-unifications
and unifications of 1906 and 1907, then of 1910, not only due to
the vicissitudes of the struggle, but also under the pressure from below, demanding pro-
visional tests by their own experience.
I think that it is necessary to say about this more accurately and specifically on one
page.
Lenin

LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO**
December 19, 1921
On the question of the purge of the party, it seems to me that the published
facts fully prove the gigantic success of the purge as a
whole, despite rather numerous individual errors. It seems to me that as a result of the party conference
both circumstances should be emphasized. Setting a deadline
for the repeated purge, in my opinion, is not necessary, so as in no way
to tie our hands.
I would advise establishing by decision of the party conference
more stringent conditions for admission to party membership: the term of can-
didacy 1 1/2 years for a worker (considering a worker to be someone who has worked for no less than 10 years of their life in large industry
as a simple wage worker and now works for no less than 2-
3 years), for everyone else - 3 years.
A reduction of these terms by half is permissible in special
cases, when devotion to the party and communist endurance
are fully proven and when this is certified by a majority of 4/6
on the part of all party collegiums deciding the issue.
*
The draft theses were corrected in accordance with the instructions
of V. I. Lenin. See "The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Resolutions," vol. I, 1940, p. 405.
The document is printed from a typed copy.
** The letter was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Printed
from a secretary's record.