V. I.

Lenin

778

To:   THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ALL-RUSSIA CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

24/X.1922

A number of newspaper articles have noted the absolutely extraordinary success scored by some American
agricultural communes and teams who had brought their tractors along with them. It has been established in a
special check-up that excellent work has been done by the tractor team led by Harold Ware in the Toikino State
Farm, Perm Gubernia. Besides, the Industrial Immigration
Department of the Supreme Economic Council is in possession of similar information concerning the work of
agricultural communes in Kirsanov Uyezd, Tambov Gubernia,
and in the village of Migayevo, Tiraspol Uyezd, Odessa
Gubernia.

The American Society for Technical Aid to Russia is now organising nearly 200 artels with 800–1,000 tractors
for dispatch to Russia. If this goes through, we shall have
at least one model farm with American machinery in each
uyezd, which I believe to be of great importance.

With the object of encouraging this undertaking. I have
written letters of thanks to the American Society of
Friends of Soviet Russia and the American Society for
Technical Aid to Soviet Russia, telling them that no type
of aid is as important to us or as timely as that which they
arc extending to our agriculture. [1]

In these letters I told them that I was sending a recommendation to the
Presidium of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee that
they should declare the Perm and other leading farms model ones and give them special and extraordinary
assistance, both in respect of building operations, and in the
supply of gasoline, metal, and other material necessary for
the extension of operations and the starting of repair shops.

Please consider this question and grant my request. [2]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars