V. I.

Lenin

652

NOTE TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV AND ASSIGNMENT TO N. P. GORBUNOV [1]

Comrade Bryukhanov:

It now remains to work out practical proposals:

Sell the People’s Commissariat for Food so much?

For commodity exchange for grain give (on credit?) so much on such-and-such terms?

Use warehouses in this way?

Agreement on such terms?

27/ II. Lenin

Comrade Gorbunov:

Send this off and keep track.

27/ II. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This was written in_connection with a letter from M. I. Frumkin,
Deputy People’s Commissar for Food, on February 20, 1922,
who objected to the plan for trading in salt, which he believed to
be wrong. Frumkin requested that the reply to his letter should
be sent to Bryukhanov.

N. P. Bryukhanov, replying on March 6 to Lenin’s note, wrote
that the People’s Commissariat for Food had organised the trade in
salt “in the very direction” suggested by Lenin. Bryukhanov
reported the preparation of an agreement with the Supreme Economic
Council and other measures (Central Party Archives of the Institute
of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).