Draft Decision for the Council of People's Commissars on the Purveyance of Raw Materials (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

Draft Decision for the Council of People’s Commissars on the Purveyance of Raw Materials[1]

Written: May 25, 1920
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Printing, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 42, page 191b.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
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A commission to he set up, which shall, within a fortnight:

  1. Devise measures for unifying all grain and raw material purveyance under a single department or by a sufficiently secure and expedient unification for this purpose of the respective departments. Use must be made of the co-operative machinery.

  2. The commission, in particular, must examine the question of employing the Food Army and the internal security units for the purveyance of all kinds of raw materials; following this, the conditions and concrete dimensions for applying bonuses and exchange of commodities (as a rule, on a collective basis), in particular, returning to the peasants in the form of processed goods part of the raw materials delivered by them.

  3. The application everywhere of the surplus-appropriation system in the purveyance of raw materials, as well as of fixed prices, is obligatory.

Notes

[1] This draft was adopted at the meeting of the C.P.C. on May 25, 1920.