DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b) ON THE FREE SALE OF BOOKS HELD IN MOSCOW WAREHOUSES
1) To entrust the Moscow Sovdep and the Main Political Education Department jointly with the task of maintaining an inventory of books stored in Moscow’s warehouses;
2) To authorize the Main Political Education Department to draw from Moscow’s warehouses those books required for libraries, ensuring that, in the process of distributing these books, the interests of Moscow are fully safeguarded; to this end, the Main Political Education Department is obligated to grant the Moscow Provincial Political Education Department the right to receive timely information and to appeal its decisions within a three‑day period.
3) Among the books slated for free sale in Moscow, exclude pornography and works of a religious nature, transferring them to Glavbum for use as paper stock.
4) Foreign books may be sold freely.
Written on September 13, 1921.
First published in 1959 in Volume XXXVI of the Lenin Collection.

Printed from manuscript.