Lenin: 749. TO A. I. RYKOV












V. I.

Lenin



749



To:   A. I. RYKOV


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Written: Written between August 25 and September 1, 1922

Published:

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.

Printed from the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1976,

Moscow,

Volume 45,

pages 561c-562a.


Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov


Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala


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Comrade Rykov:

I am sending you a cutting from Izvestia (of 25.VIII,
I
believe).[1] I advise that you issue instructions to have
this given particular attention. Check up (through the
business manager or a secretary).



If it is true, give every support.

Has Rutgers achieved anything? I doubt it.

If anything has been achieved here, we should
award the Order of the Banner of Labour;— send a letter
to America (on your behalf or mine);— make the State
Bank work out easier loans for such enterprises; and
make the People’s Commissariat for Finance or the
People’s Commissariat for Agriculture urgently work out
easier terms for recruiting more tractors (in the autumn;
now, to manage in time).

This appears to be an efficient example; business-like
assistance; while we over here have no end of red tape!

Instruct secretary or business manager to write me a
reply.[2]

Yours,

Lenin

N.B. Carry out Getier’s orders strictly!




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Notes





[1]

On August 25, 1922, Izvestia VTsIK carried an article entitled
“Real Aid from ‘Friends of Soviet Russia’”, describing the work



of the tractor team organised by members of the American
Society of Friends of Soviet Russia, at the Toikino State Farm,
Okhan Uyezd, Perm Gubernia (see Collected Works, Fifth
(Russian) Edition, Vol. 54, Document 470). It was led by the
American Communist Harold Ware. On a newspaper cutting, Lenin
underlined the caption and wrote “NB” in the left margin.

[2]

V. A. Smolyaninov informed Lenin that he had sent a telegram
to the Chairman of the Perm Gubernia Executive Committee
asking him to acquaint himself with the work of the American
tractor team, give his opinion about it, and help the team.
Smolyaninov wrote that the talks on modifying the agreement with
the Rutgers group were to be held when Rutgers returned from
Kuzbas.

Having received the material from Perm, Lenin sent letters
to the Society of Friend? of Soviet Russia (in the United Stales),
the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia, to the Chairman
of the Perm Gubernia Executive Committee, and to the
Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C. (see this volume, Documents 776
and 778, and also present edition, Vol. 33, pp. 380, 381).




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