Notes on the Immediate Tasks of the Party (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

Notes on the Immediate Tasks of the Party

Written: October 19, 1920
Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Printing, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 42, page 219b.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
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Principal questions after the termination of the war with Wrangel (and for the Party congress of 1921):

  1. A drive against bureaucracy and red tape in Soviet institutions; checking real successes of this campaign;

  2. Strengthening the socialist foundation: seven ’million trade union members. Equality in place of shock work.

Developing initiative on the part of seven million trade union members;

  1. Links between the trade unions (A.C.C.T.U.) and the working, non-exploiting, non-profiteering peasantry. Forms and methods.

Strengthening connections between Soviet power and the peasantry.

Tractors and collective farms.

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