V. I. Lenin

Motion for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on M. I. Kalinin’s Trip to the Ukraine {1}

To Comrade Molotov for all the members of the
Politbureau

Please put to the vote of the Politbureau the following
motion: that Comrade Kalinin be directed immediately to make a round of the
richer grain gubernias of the Ukraine to collect aid for the victims of the
famine. The expedition to be fitted out with great thoroughness to enable
it to carry out effective agitation for relief collections by means of
photographs, films, demonstration of witnesses and sufferers from the
famine-stricken areas, etc. Personal responsibility for the practical
organisation of the expedition to be imposed upon

1. Kalinin for the political side of the business

2. a specially appointed practical worker endorsed by the Politbureau
who would really be capable of putting through and organising the business
properly.

Kalinin together with the whole expedition shall leave within 3 days.

Lenin

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Notes:
{1}
Lenin’s proposal on Kalinin’s trip to the Ukraine was adopted by the
Politbureau on January 28. Kalinin made the trip on February 7-18 and March
5-18, 1922, with the agittrain “October Revolution” along the route:
Poltava— Mirgorod— Kiev— Belaya Tserkov— Kremenchug— Odessa—
Zhmerinka—- Kamenets Podolsk— Vinnitsa— Berdichev— Zhitomir.