V. I.

Lenin

659

REMARKS ON A DRAFT ALL-RUSSIA C.E.C. DECISION ON THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ INSPECTION AND LETTER TO J. V. STALIN [1]

Draft

DECISION OF THE ALL-RUSSIA
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The All-Russia C.E.C. has resolved:

1)

To entrust the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection with control and supervision over the activity of all public
and private organisations, establishments and enterprises, without
exception, from the standpoint of fulfilment of the obligations they
have undertaken from state organs.

2)

In pursuance of this, the P.C.W.P.I. shall have the power of:

1. Subsequent, control over all monetary and material

3)

resources, allocated by the state to the said organisations, enterprises
and establishments, by way;of financing, subsidy and credits,
extended to them, or made available to them on the strength of contracts
concluded by them with the state, and verification of all acts flowing
from these obligations....

To Comrade Stalin

That won’t do.

1) Not to “entrust”, but to explain the laws in
force and their incompleteness in the given sense.

2) Not only from this standpoint. But also
from the standpoint of legality. And from the standpoint of collecting material for new laws.
And from many other standpoints.

3) Not only “allocated by the state”.

Very urgent!!

This should be rewritten once again. Thought out three times more thoroughly. Many more
details given. Everything set out so that the whole should not have the appearance of a new
decree, but of an elucidation and summary of the old ones.

Pass through the C.P.C. and confirm by the
All-Russia C.E.C. on someone’s complaint.

This is urgent! Very urgent !!

Please let me have both this and the new draft after reworking.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin’s remarks on a draft All-Russia C.E.C. decision on the
tasks of the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection under the New Economic Policy were taken into
account in the final drafting of this decision (see Izvestia VTsIK
No. 67 of March 24, 1922). For Lenin’s correspondence on the
Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection control over the activity of
private enterprises see Lenin Miscellany XXXV , pp. 324–29.