V. I.

Lenin

OUTLINE OF SPEECH AT THE TENTH ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS OF SOVIETS [1]

1. Fifth anniversary (Vladivostok).

2. Civil war united working class and peasantry, and
this is a guarantee of invincible strength .

3. Civil war trained and tempered (Denikin and others
were good teachers ; taught seriously; all our best Party workers were in the army ).

3  bis : ... 3  bis : Diplomacy (N.B.). Apparatus is easier to build.

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4. We have overcome last year’s famine too.

5. Now concentrate on economics : how (N.B.) to approach
socialism?

6. Not otherwise than through NEP .

7. A year’s testing ?

8. Finances. A small step forward.

9. Kritsman , 1920—16%, 21—50%,
22—60%. [2]

10. Growth of trade, both internal

11.— — and external.

12. — Mixed companies: learning .

13. Industry: light industry has improved , 14.— — — heavy difficult , but not hopeless: there is
a small step forward.

15. Central Council of Co-operative Societies : its special
significance.

16. The state apparatus in general: bad beyond description ; lower than the bourgeois level of culture .

(“ frightened” in November 1917); it is a question of culture in general , and it will take years to raise it .

17. Hundreds of thousands of employees in the state
apparatus. Increase .

N.B.

18. Census of 1922 (Oct.–Nov.).

19. Its results.

20. Article by Kin . [3]

21. Not alterations, but redistribution and reduction .

22. A job for many years: (we are alone, it is we who are
carrying, and we should be the ones who are being carried ).

23. More rapidly (1917–22)
more slowly (1922–27?) (“watchword”).

24. Patronage of town Party cells over village cells and
vice versa .

Often : this apparatus does not belong to us, we belong
to it!

Supply of raw materials and other things for the next year ! N.B. (danger).