V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v52;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO COMRADE KRZHIZHANOVSKY

Is it not possible to work out (not now, but after the Congress,* for the Council of Labour and Defence, but immediately) a practical plan for an electrification campaign:

Approximately*:

1) to set up urgently at least one electric station in every district;

2) to make this centre a centre for instruction, lectures, demonstrations, etc., and to put the whole population through these courses (beginning with the youth, or by volosts, etc.);

3) to distribute immediately among the population what can be prepared now (we need 2½ million poods of copper—let us distribute 2½ million poods immediately, let them collect voluntarily bells, handles, etc.; then poles, etc.);

4) to start preparatory earthwork immediately and distribute it among the districts;

5) to mobilise all engineers, electrical engineers, all graduates of the physics and mathematics faculties, etc., without exception. Obligation: not less than 2 (4?) lectures a week, to teach electricity to not less than (10-50?) persons. Fulfilment—bonus. Non-fulfilment—prison;

6) to write urgently several popular pamphlets (partly translated from German) and to convert the “book” (yours) into a series of more popular sketches for use in schools and for reading to peasants.