V. I.

Lenin

ON REORGANISING THE WORK OF THE C.P.C., THE C.L.D. AND THE NARROW C.P.C. [1]

LETTER TO A. D. TSYURUPA

February 15,1922

Comrade Tsyurupa:

I believe you are right.

We should get the Politbureau’s consent and start “reducing” [2] :

Rough- ly
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1) composition: five men as indicated by you, plus 2
non-departmental (Belov + ?)

2) appropriations under the state estimates, first, to the
People’s Commissariat for Finance and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection; to the Narrow C.P.C. only by way of protest;
the rest, as you have it.

Think over once again and set down in writing these principles for reducing the Narrow C.P.C., obtain the
opinion of the Narrow C.P.C. Chairman, get these principles
through the Politbureau, and then swiftly elaborate them
into a new statute.

Perhaps the commissions should also be reduced? their role in actual verification enhanced? all the work
subordinated directly to the deputies of the C.L.D. Chairman?

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On December 1, 1921, having heard Lenin’s report on
A. D. Tsyurupa’s work, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C.
decided to confirm him in the post of Second Deputy Chairman of the
C.L.D., and on December 5 he was appointed Deputy Chairman
of the C.P.C. by a Politbureau decision.

The country’s transition :o peaceful economic construction
made it necessary to improve and restructure the whole Soviet
state apparatus. The programme for this was set out in the
letters to A. D. Tsyurupa (see present edition, Vol. 35, Documents
307, 308, 309 and 310).

[2]
This document is written in connection with A. D. Tsyurupa’s
letter reporting the shortcomings in the work of the Narrow
C.P.C.

Tsyurupa proposed that the Narrow C.P.C. should be reduced
from 22 to 5 persons: a chairman and four representatives of
departments (People’s Commissariat for Justice, People’s
Commissariat for Finance, Supreme Economic Council, and People’s
Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection). All
matters relating to appropriations, provided for in the state
estimates, were to go to the People’s Commissariat for Finance, and
went to the Narrow C.P.C. only by way of protest against the acts
of the Commissariat. The Narrow C.P.C. examined the questions
provided for by the order.