WITH A PROPOSAL TO THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b) AND THE PRESIDIUM OF THE VTsIK
1/III. 1922
Comrade Tsyurupa!
With regard to the Civil Code, having reviewed its principal provisions, I believe it is both more prudent and more correct to:
for now, confine ourselves to a declarative statement, while refining the Code itself in greater detail.
I ask you to endeavor to have this adopted by the Presidium of the VTsIK and the Politburo—No. 184.
Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence
Lenin
First published in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV

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