V. I.

Lenin

810

To:   DEPUTY CHAIRMEN OF THE C.P.C. AND C.L.D. [4]

Letter to the Deputies [1]

1. Rykov should be given the State Planning
Commission. [2]

2. I think that we should employ 6 shorthand writers
recording every interview briefly, in 3 or 4 lines, naturally
confining this only to the essence of what is agreed and
to the main—two or three—figures.

I think this is necessary to have the work of the three
deputies concerted, and second, to make it possible to think again about the decisions taken on the run, and to
compare the results of the measures taken after a few weeks.

Gorbunov should be assigned the organisation of this whole apparatus of stenographic note-taking, and strict
supervision to see that it works quite well.

3. Please make a brief record—roughly on one page—
of the decision you have finally taken with respect to the
statistician Popov. I do not intend to question this decision
just now, but believe that within a few weeks we shall need a precise record of the charges and the
defence. [3]

N. Lenin