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To:   THE HEADS OF ALL CENTRAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS

Secret. Personal

To All People’s Commissars (to the deputies of those who are absent)

Also to all separate establishments: Central Statistical
Board, State Planning Commission, Concessions Committee,
People’s Commissariat for Internal Trade under the C.L.D., Centrosoyuz, etc., All-Russia Central T.U.C., Comintern,
Profintern, etc.

As I am going on holiday for several months, it is my earnest request that you should keep me informed of the
most important matters and the fulfilment of the most important decisions, plans, campaigns, etc., as follows:

— send me once or twice a month the briefest (not more than 2 or 3 pages) communications on the subject, and
give instructions to send me the most important of the current publications by the People’s Commissariat and
also the texts of the most important published decrees and
drafts. If the People’s Commissar should find it inconvenient to do this work himself, please inform me who
specifically (deputy, member of collegium, business manager
or secretary, etc.) is to have this duty, instructing that
person to maintain regular contacts with my secretary (Fotieva, Lepeshinskaya). Through these same secretaries it
is always possible to send inquiries by telegraph or by
mail, with the current and urgent inquiries addressed not
otherwise than to my deputy (Rykov or Tsyurupa) and only copies sent to me.

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The secretaries will have the duty to watch accurately that this is done, informing me of the incoming
publications, not sending in the whole lot, but only the most
important ones (the rest—only a list).

Of the Russian newspapers supply regularly Pravda , Izvestia and Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn .

Maintain regular contacts with the Communist International and the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ,
asking them to supply the most important foreign publications, especially pamphlets on current questions.

Of the Russian publications abroad send in
Nakanune , [1]
Sotsial-Demokrat (Menshevik), Zarya (Menshevik), Sovremenniye Zapiski (S.R.), Russkaya Mysl [2] and a list of
the other publications, pamphlets and books.

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Notes:
[1]
Nakanune (On the Eve)—a newspaper published in Berlin with the participation of the Smena Vekh group (see Note 415).

[2]
Russkaya Mysl (Russian Thought)—a journal published in

Prague in 1922 under the editorship of P. B. Struve.