To Comrade Zinoviev

If I gave my consent over the telephone, I clearly did not calculate the time needed for the presentation and the period of treatment.235 I must decisively take back my consent. Replace me with Bukharin, and if he leaves, then with someone else. Some conclusions concerning the New Economic Policy can probably be prepared for you in the form of a brief report, entrusting its preparation to someone by agreement between Kamenev and myself.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone from the typewritten copy