V. I. Lenin

Comrade Molotov, Pleaseput two proposals for the Politbureau to the vote by
telephone:

1) Not to publish the decision of the Politbureau on the figure of a
single grain tax pending a new decision after the State Planning Commission
has completed and submitted its calculations.

(Krzhizhanovskyyesterday complained to me bitterly that they had been
doing a big job on these calculations, but it was broken off without him
having even been given a hearing. Please give him another 3–4 days and do
not publish until then.)

2) The newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo to be closed
down. Arrangements to be made with Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn for using
the

material. {1}

Lenin

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Notes:
{1}
Kooperativnoye Dyelo (Co-operative Business)—a socio-economic, co-operative and trade daily, organ of Centrosoyuz. The
Editor-in-Chief was N. L. Meshcheryakov. Publication started on February 1,
1922.

Lenin’smotion (see the next document) was put before the Politbureau
at its meeting on February 15, 1922. A decision was passed “To require the
editorial board of Kooperativnoye Dyelo to submit to the
Politbureau within three days an explanation in writing concerning the
newspaper’s publication, its character, the composition of its editorial
board, staff and contributors” (Central Party Archives, Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U.). The question was dealt with a
second time on February 22, when it was decided to postpone the closing
down of the newspaper for a fortnight. A final decision was reached in May,
the newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo being converted into a weekly.