NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS and F. E. DZERZHINSKY
April 22, 1920
M. F. Andreeva has a method of communication for receiving
newspapers and mail (for receiving and sending, for exchange).
I request you to provide her with every assistance for the proper
organization of this matter.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

NOTES REGARDING THE DECREE
ON THE LABOR FOOD RATION*
April 27, 1920
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1) Change the name.
2) Abolish the general civic norm.
3) Make the labor ration the basis, i.e.,
for days worked.
4) Divide the labor ration into categories according to the ease
or difficulty of the work.
5) 1st category: mental and clerical
labor
6) 2nd » physical
7) 3rd » particularly heavy, etc.
8) "Shock groups" (i.e., professions and enterprises particularly
important for production) are transferred, by decree of the Council of People's Commissars (sometimes, according to special rules) and the Council of Labor and Defense, to categories
2, 3, etc.
9) For the unemployed, jobless, and then traders, etc.,
a particularly low norm is established. Exception.
10) Special exceptions for children and the sick.

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Draft title:
"Decree on Greater Uniformity of Food Rations and on the Labor Ration as the Basis of the Entire Food
System."
That which was previously called the "general civic norm"
should be renamed as

*
The decree was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on April 30, 1920, and published
in "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" on May 4, 1920.

Train with food, sent by the Omsk workers to V. I. Lenin on the day of his
fiftieth birthday, April 22, 1920.

Train with food, sent by the Omsk workers to V. I. Lenin on the day of his
fiftieth birthday, April 22, 1920

YEAR

"norm for the unemployed and petty proprietors" or: those
who have their own occupations, non-workers, etc. (or: "petty
proprietors"), "not working in Soviet enterprises and institutions."
Benefit: (1) in the capitals and in all non-agricultural, factory
cities, a huge simplification (because there a mass works
in Soviet enterprises or in Soviet institutions).
(2)
In non-industrial cities, we clearly single out the population,
not working in Soviet enterprises and in Soviet institutions,
and this population needs to be gradually sublated from the ration (either start your own garden, or go to work in Soviet enterprises or Soviet institutions).
We will not feed those who do not work in Soviet enterprises
or in Soviet institutions.
Calculate which system will have fewer ration cards and be simpler overall.
Lenin
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RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM FROM TAGANROG
April 29, 1920
Moscow, Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense, Lenin
Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Kalinin*
District party conference of the Communist Party of Ukraine of the
Taganrog district. Indignant at the disarray surrounding the question of the borders of the Donetsk
province and the Don region. Lugansk telegraphically instructs Taganrog,
referring to a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, to obey it; Rostov on
this telegraphs Taganrog that the borders of the Don region remain the same. Part of the Taganrog
district, without the knowledge or consent of the Taganrog
district revkom, has already been occupied by the Donetsk province, where
representatives of Lugansk threaten representatives of Taganrog with arrest and armed force. The
Party conference earnestly requests that the outrages, which are completely disorganizing
the work of the Taganrog district military commissariat and the volrevkoms
on the ground, be stopped.
Presidium of the conference

*
At the top of the telegram is a note from the STO secretariat, made
on the instructions of V. I. Lenin: "Copies to Stalin, Vladimirsky."
Vladimirsky is sick.
Contact the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Vasiliev?)
and ensure that the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
takes measures.
Lenin

REGARDING THE PUBLICATION OF THE BOOK "LEFT-WING
COMMUNISM: AN INFANTILE DISORDER"

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LETTER TO G. V. CHICHERIN
Beginning of May 1920
To Comrade Chicherin
Comrade Chicherin! I would ask you and Feinberg (and if
you are busy, then a comrade at your direction who knows
the English socialist movement well) to review my pamphlet or chapter on England and give me advice as to whether
I have any mistakes or tactlessness. Practical corrections,
if it is not difficult, I would very much ask you to write down separately in pencil.
Yours, Lenin

LETTER TO PETROGRAD
May 23, 1920
To the Petrograd comrades who are publishing my pamphlet on the Left:
1) I ask you to check the final proof with the corrections
made here in the proof;
2) I ask you to send me this, enclosed here, proof back;
3) in the "addition" I ask you to especially correct the places on page 5,
marked in the margins with the signs:
1)))
(after checking, return to me); and 2)))
4) I ask you to inform me by phone the name of the comrade
responsible for the verification and for the final release. (And also.
when you release it).
5) There is no need to wait for further corrections from me.
Lenin