To Comrade Zinoviev (Copy to Comrade Kamenev)

I request that the question be discussed of whether Comrade Pyatakov should not be appointed as the rapporteur at the plenum of the IKKI on the question of the New Economic Policy, if neither Trotsky nor Kamenev agree. Bukharin cannot in any case, as he must leave immediately for Germany for treatment.

I think that Pyatakov's candidacy would be suitable, and if you agree, I request that such a resolution be passed through the Politburo and that Pyatakov be required to write a draft of theses by the coming Sunday, in accordance with those theses which were submitted by me and approved by the Central Committee for the report at the last congress of the Comintern.236

Lenin

from the typewritten copy