V. I.

Lenin

679

To:   M. I. FRUMKIN

Comrade Frumkin:

I had just finished writing to you and
Radchenko, [1] when
I received your letter. [2] I cannot agree with you. The
Politbureau decision is precise, clear and, I believe, correct.

What are your “differences of principle with Krasin”??
I should like to know. Are there any? What are they about?
Which are they?

Even if there are any in fact, that is no hindrance.

With Stomonyakov, you and Radchenko will make arrangements here, now. You and Radchenko will each travel
abroad at least once a year. It is not far from here to
Berlin, and Berlin is the centre.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See previous document.— Ed.

[2]

M. I. Frumkin set out in the letter here mentioned of March
21, 1922, his opinion of the state of affairs in the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade. He held that the Politbureau of the
R.C.P.(B.) C.C. decision, including him on the Collegium of the
People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade and appointing Deputy
People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade, was not appropriate for
several reasons, chiefly because of his “differences of principle
with Krasin on the main question—the nature of the foreign
trade monopoly”. Frumkin requested that ho should be allowed to
continue at the People’s Commissariat for Food (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U.
Central Committee).