DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b)
[December 31, 1921]
On the vote of the Politburo:
To request that the Central Control Commission reinstate Comrade Yudovsky¹ into the Party, given the political nature of the charges brought against him and in light of the corroborating testimonies of Safarov² and Dvolaytsky³.
For: Lenin *
* The document bears the voting endorsements “for” from other members of the Politburo.

1 V. G. Yudovsky had been a member of the Party since 1903. In 1917, he served on the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP(b). In 1921, he was Secretary of the Syrdarya Regional Committee of the RCP(b). Later, he held positions of responsibility within the Party and engaged in teaching and scholarly work.
During the Party purge, he was subjected to politically motivated accusations, which were subsequently refuted in the course of the investigation. The draft resolution proposed by V. I. Lenin was adopted by the Politburo on December 31, 1921.
2 G. I. Safarov had been a Party member since 1908. Following the October Socialist Revolution, he held positions of responsibility within both the Party and the Soviet state. He was a member of the Turk Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(b). In 1918, he aligned himself with the “Left Communists.” At the Fourteenth Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he joined the “New Opposition,” later becoming part of the Trotsky–Zinoviev bloc. For his anti‑Party activities, he was expelled from the Party.
Sh.
M.
Dvolaytsky was a communist and a lecturer in economic disciplines at higher education institutions; from 1921 onward, he served as a member of the Presidium of the Socialist Academy.
For further information on this matter, see also Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXXIX, pp. 416–417.
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NOTE TO I. V. STALIN
[March 1922, prior to the 22nd] Comrade Stalin!
In case Kamenev failed to inform you:
I wish to be in Moscow on Wednesday. We must arrange a meeting.
And on Thursday, we should bring the Genoa Conference¹ to a close.
Please jot down two words—or give me a call.
Lenin
1 Lenin is referring to the international economic and financial conference that was scheduled to take place in Genoa (Italy) following a decision made by the Supreme Council of the Entente Powers on January 6, 1922. Guided by the principle of peaceful coexistence and recognizing the need to establish diplomatic and economic relations with capitalist countries, the Soviet government agreed to participate in the conference. On January 27, the Extraordinary Session of the All‑Russian Central Executive Committee approved the Soviet delegation to the Genoa Conference. V. I. Lenin was appointed Chairman of the delegation, while People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin was designated as his deputy—“with all the powers of the Chairman in the event that circumstances should preclude Comrade Lenin’s travel to the conference” (“Documents of Soviet Foreign Policy,” Moscow, 1961, Vol. V, p. 67). Overload from state duties and declining health made it impossible for Lenin to leave Russia. The Central Committee of the RCP(b) issued a special resolution on this matter, according to which V. I. Lenin transferred the authority of Chairman of the delegation to G. V. Chicherin (see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 45, p. 453). Although Lenin was unable to attend the conference in person, all preparatory work leading up to the conference—and the activities of the Soviet delegation—were carried out under his direct guidance.

(See ibid., Volume 44, pp. 374–376, 382–384, 385–386, 406–408, and Volume 45, pp. 34–40, 63–64, 161, 162, 163, 164–165, 171, 172, 183, 184, 185, 187.)
The Genoa Conference was held from April 10 to May 19, 1922.
At the opening session of the conference, Chicherin delivered the statement of the Soviet government.
The Soviet government put forward a series of measures designed to foster economic cooperation between the Western powers and Soviet Russia. The Soviet delegation announced its decision to submit to the conference a proposal for the universal reduction of armaments and for the convening of a world congress dedicated to establishing universal peace.
The Soviet government’s statement—especially its proposal for disarmament—elicited sharply negative reactions from representatives of the capitalist countries. The imperialist powers demanded that the Soviet state recognize all debts incurred by the Tsarist and Provisional Governments and imposed a number of additional demands.
The Soviet delegation resolutely resisted these attempts by the imperialists to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet state, rejecting their demands aimed at subjecting Soviet Russia to economic and political subjugation, liquidating Soviet power, and transforming Russia into a semi‑colonial appendage of global capitalism. Instead, the Soviet delegation presented counter‑claims to the Allied powers—a demand for compensation for the losses suffered by Soviet Russia as a result of foreign military intervention and blockade.
Given the uncompromising stance adopted by the Entente Powers, the conference did not yield any immediate practical results in normalizing relations between Soviet Russia and the capitalist states. However, the Soviet state’s principled yet flexible approach at the Genoa Conference strengthened its position and enhanced its prestige on the international stage. The Soviet state demonstrated that negotiations with it could only proceed on an equal footing. Before the entire world, it showcased its commitment to peace, its desire for friendship and cooperation with all peoples.
I. V. Stalin (Jugashvili) had been a member of the RSDLP since 1898 and a member of the Central Committee since 1912. From November 1917 to July 1923, he served as People’s Commissar for Nationalities; from March 1919 onward, he also held the post of People’s Commissar for State Control, later serving as People’s Commissar of the RCP. After the Eighth Party Congress, he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b); after the Eleventh Party Congress, he was appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).