Date: 1922
Source: ru:PSS/v45

PLAN FOR THE ARTICLE “WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT RABKRIN?”*

1. – In general, our state apparatus is the most deeply entrenched, the most thoroughly permeated by the old spirit.
It is precisely through this path that we can most effectively renew it.

2. – The greatest degree of dynamism is found in an apparatus of this kind—namely, one that is directly linked to the Central Committee.

3. – Its highest level of authority.

4. – Might there then be too many members of the Central Committee?

5. – The character of Central Committee plenums as conferences has already emerged from our previous party-building efforts.

6. – It may be advisable to issue a resolution limiting the attendance of Central Committee members at meetings of the higher governmental bodies (the Council of People’s Commissars, the State Planning Commission, the All‑Union Council of National Economy, and so on).

7. – A rotation system could be established for their attendance at these meetings.

8. – A rotation system might also be introduced for their participation in the sessions of the Rabkrin Collegium.

9. – A possible objection to this plan: too many auditors, too much oversight, too many superiors empowered to demand immediate responses and to pull staff away from their direct duties, and so forth.

10. – The answer: we do not envision the usual type of staffing in the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.

* See this volume, pp. 383–388. Ed.

MATERIALS FOR THE ARTICLE “HOW SHOULD WE REORGANIZE RABKRIN?”
11. – What accounts for the fact that the staff composition in the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs is superior? And what conditions must be met in order to achieve, from within the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, an apparatus that is equally revitalized?

12. – The People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection must now begin to reorganize its work along entirely new lines, drawing upon the experience accumulated over five years.

13. – The Secretariat of the Central Committee should undertake a new organizational effort—namely, the systematic training of newly appointed Central Committee members in all the intricacies of administrative management.

14. – The further streamlining of Politburo meetings naturally follows from the ongoing course of work itself.

15. – An important advantage of increasing the number of Central Committee members lies in the reduction of personal, contingent factors in the Committee’s decision‑making processes, and so on.
Dictated in January, no later than the 9th, 1923.
First published in 1959.

In Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from a secretary’s record (a typewritten copy).