V. I.

Lenin

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To:   J. V. STALIN

Comrade Stalin:

Please show Comrade Tomsky this draft letter (and if necessary, also to Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov, etc.) and
please return to me, retyped, not later than tomorrow .

I shall send it in to the congress by the 16th, or whenever
necessary. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to a draft letter to the Fifth All-Russia Congress of
Trade Unions, with the initials of members of the C.C.
Politbureau and this note by M. P. Tomsky: “It would be good to
bring out the workers in greater relief, and a couple of words about
large-scale industry being the basis of socialism.” Apparently
in connection with this remark, Lenin added to the third sentence
this insertion: “and it is precisely that part of industry known
as heavy industry which is the main basis of socialism” (present
edition, Vol. 33, pp. 370–71).

Lenin’s letter was read out at the first sitting of the congress
on September 17, 1922.