V. I.

Lenin

781

To:   V. N. MAXIMOVSKY

27.X.1922

Comrade Maximovsky:

You may have heard about yesterday’s C.C.
decision. [2]
In this connection it is perhaps also necessary to review
some of the other sections of the estimates of the People’s
Commissariat for Education in order to co-ordinate the whole thing, fill in the gaps, etc.

Since you are at the head of the administrative and financial work of the People’s Commissariat, I ask you to
start at once a review of the estimates of the P.C.E., trying to reduce the unnecessary elements in general (part
of the
C.C.I.L. C.S., [1] some of the higher schools, many of the top sections, etc.), to increase appropriations for the
schools and the liquidation of illiteracy. Phone me about
this or write a couple of words.

Yours,

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Central Commission for Improving the Living Conditions of
Scientists under the C.P.C.— Ed.

[2]
A reference to the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. decision of October 26, 1922, reducing state subsidies to Proletcult and the academic theatres.