Date: 1922
Source: ru:LS/v35

Lenin Collection
2j 469
LETTER TO L. B. KRASIN*
February–March 1922. To Krasin
Top Secret – To Comrade Krasin¹
You mentioned to me during one of our recent meetings that you had held negotiations with a certain English merchant regarding the establishment of a joint venture for the export of precious stones and the like.
I would be grateful if you could write me a few lines: Has anything come of this plan? The same question applies to Germany.
Next, I ask you to reply: Could you arrange for someone to prepare a concise summary—no more than 2–3 pages—of the factual data characterizing the development of our foreign trade over the past few months, say, the last six months?
Such a document would be extremely useful to me for my report at the Party Congress**. A tentative list of questions might include:
The number of trade agreements concluded with other nations, specifying the year and month of their signing.
The number of mixed‑capitalist enterprises established for commercial purposes, involving capitalists from various nationalities.
The volume of imports and exports, expressed in pre‑war rubles, broken down monthly over the past few months.
Orders placed and goods imported, separated into foodstuffs and industrial equipment.
The number of merchants recruited by the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade on a commission basis, distinguishing between Russian and foreign traders, and so forth.
With communist greetings,
Lenin
*
The letter was dictated by V. I. Lenin over the telephone. It is printed from the secretary’s record.
• * See Collected Works, Volume XXVII, pp. 232 and 240–241.

1922
LETTER TO A. D. TSYURUPA
March 1, 1922. To Tsyurupa!
With regard to the Civil Code, having reviewed its main provisions, I believe it would be both more prudent and more appropriate—at this stage—to limit ourselves to a declarative statement, while refining the Code itself in greater detail.
I ask you to make every effort to have this proposal approved by the Presidium of the All‑Russian Central Executive Committee and by the Politburo.
Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense
Lenin

TO THE SIBERIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE
March 6, 1922
I am sending you a letter from M. Bagayev. I entrust you with the task of verifying the facts set forth in his letter, investigating the reasons behind the imposition of tax rates disproportionately high relative to crop yields, and punishing those responsible for exceeding their authority in the collection of the grain tax and for the brutal mistreatment of the peasantry. Furthermore, you are to ascertain the full picture of tax collection efforts in the other volosts of Novo‑Nikolaevskaya Governorate.
It is imperative that we take particularly vigorous measures to ensure the complete reseeding of those areas that have suffered from improper grain tax collection practices.
Please keep me informed of your progress.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original manuscript, signed by
V. I. Lenin.

LETTER TO THE SECRETARY
March 7, 1922. To Glässer! The draft of the speech this time is far superior to previous attempts—but it still falls short. Please compare the first draft carefully with the version I have revised*.
*
The reference is to the stenographic record of the lecture “On the International and Domestic Situation of the Soviet Republic,” delivered by V. I. Lenin before the faction of the All‑Russian Congress of Metalworkers on March 6, 1922 (Collected Works, Volume XXVII, pp. 168–179).