ORGANIZATION OF WORKERS' FOOD INSPECTION

a) The dairy department should partially satisfy these requirements by retaining the necessary number of Red Army soldiers in the provinces where they are located, and subsequently dismissing the remaining units, replacing them with others;
b) Entrust the Military Commissariat to establish, within five days, the procedure for providing the appropriate Red Army forces at the disposal of local procurement bodies.
c) Entrust Komprod and VSNKh to verify, within three days, the correctness of the work on the distribution of tin and eliminate inter-departmental frictions regarding the ownership of canning factories.
d) Entrust VSNKh, in agreement with Komprod, to provide, within a week, a list of responsible organizers with specific tasks in the most important points and regions of food supply work. Implementation to be entrusted to Comrade Bryukhanov.
e) Entrust a commission consisting of Dzerzhinsky, Avanesov1, and two members appointed by Komprod to develop, within a week, a plan for the energetic "shake-up" of the Komprod apparatus.
1 V. A. Avanesov — member of the presidium and secretary of the VTsIK from 1917 to 1919.

ORGANIZATION OF WORKERS' FOOD INSPECTION
December 5, 1918

One of the major measures of the food policy of the Soviet government during the period of war communism was the creation of workers' food organizations. Lenin believed that this measure had not only a narrow food-related significance. "For the socialist revolution to be stable, a new class must come to power... The socialist revolution will be stable only to the extent that we can elevate the new class, the proletariat, to management, making it so that Russia is managed by the proletariat, making this management a transition to universal training of all workers in the art of state governance, and not just book learning, not just newspaper reading, not just speeches and pamphlets, but practical training, so that each person can test their ability to take on this task" (Collected Works, Vol. XXIII, p. 464—462). The idea of organizing a workers' food inspection appeared to Lenin, apparently, at the end of October 1918, when he outlined the composition of the commission to develop the regulations and instructions for workers' offices in food organs (see p. 475). Lenin raised the issue of the workers' inspection again in a draft proposal at the meeting of the Defense Council on December 4, 1918, concerning the intensification of the pace and scale of procurements. The next day, on December 5, at the meeting of the Sovnarkom, N. I. Bryukhanov introduced a project for the organization of a workers' food inspection. Apparently, during the discussion of the issue, Lenin sketched two versions of the Sovnarkom resolution (both were later crossed out by Lenin), but the amendments adopted by the Sovnarkom and incorporated into the project fully coincide with individual points of the resolution draft. Below we publish the project of the regulation adopted by the Sovnarkom, with Lenin's amendments.

TWO DRAFTS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS RESOLUTION PROJECT a.
systematically
1) To check specific cases of the urgent execution of certain tasks, precisely defined tasks of Komprod and food organs.
2) To establish a connection with the working and toiling masses and systematically involve them in the work [of management] of delivery and distribution of food, first as assistants, then as members of the inspection.
3) The obligation of all organs of the Workers' Inspection to give a weekly report on their activities to local and central professional union bodies.
4) With a consultative vote.
* Written on the page where Lenin recorded the speakers at the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars. Ed.
** The phrase in the manuscript is unfinished. Ed.