V. I.

Lenin

Comrade Stalin for the Politbureau :

The session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee has shown how
wrongly the A.C.E.C. is constituted. The great majority of its members are
officials.

I propose that the Politbureau pass a decision:

" To recognise as essential that no less than 60 per cent of the
members of the A.C.E.C. should be workers and peasants not occupying any
official posts in government bodies; that no less than 67 per cent of the
A.C.E.C.’s members should be Communists; a three-man commission consisting
of Comrades Kalinin, Yenukidze and Kamenev, be directed to work up this
question for the next plenum of the C.C. To be passed first through the
Politbureau, then to the Plenum of the C.C. for enactment by the next
All-Russia Congress of

Soviets. [1]

23/V.1922

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The Politbureau discussed Lenin’s motion at its meeting on May 26,
1922, and decided to pass it on as material to the commission set up by the
C.C. to steer the work of the Third Session of the All-Russia Central
Executive Committee of the Ninth Convocation.