PLAN FOR A DRAFT RESOLUTION ON QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY*
Topics:
1) The Fundamental Political Task of the Moment: The New Economic Policy:
“Serious and Long-Lasting”...
2) The Development of Commodity Exchange.
Enterprise… Self-Activity…
3) Cooperatives.
4) Small and Medium-Sized Industry: Leasing Out Operations.
5) The Central Committee’s Responsibility for Delays and for Insufficient Support of Local Initiatives.
6) A Reassessment, to a Certain Extent, of the Large-Industry Program in the Direction of Strengthening the Production of Goods for Rural Households.
7) In-Nature Rewards and Collective Supply Systems.
8) Tax in Kind
Strengthening the (food) tax apparatus.
9) The Outcome: The Accumulation of a Substantial Food Reserve—roughly 400 Million Poods—As the Foundation for Large-Scale Industrial Development and for the Implementation of Electrification.
10) The STO’s Directive to Be Transformed into a Directive Issued by the VTsIK—With Particular Emphasis on the Nominating of Non-Party Members.
11) Propaganda and Agitation in This Connection.
12) Careful and Comprehensive Coverage and Study of Local Practical Experience.
Written May 27–28, 1921.
First Published in 1957 in the journal “Questions of the History of the CPSU,” No. 1

Printed from the Manuscript

* See this volume, pp. 333–335. Ed.