DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b) ON MEASURES FOR THE CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION
1) Instruct the Central Committee of the Union of Metallurgists and the VTsSPS to devote utmost attention to accelerating the implementation of the plan to close as many underperforming enterprises as possible, thereby concentrating production in a smaller number of the best‑organized and most efficiently run establishments.
A report on the precise plan, the chronological schedule for closures, and the actual progress of implementation is to be submitted by Shlyapnikov and Medvedev—or their deputies—by Kubako, by Goltsman, and by Andreyev, through the Council of Labour and Defence, within one month.
2) Assign Shlyapnikov the task of elaborating, in greater detail, the most critical proposals from Shlyapnikov’s draft that can be implemented swiftly.
Written on May 11, 1921.
First published in 1959 in Volume XXXVI of the Lenin Collection.

Printed from the manuscript.