296. TO G. I. SAFAROV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

296

To: G. I. SAFAROV

Written: Written on August 7, 1921
Published: First published, but not in full, in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of the Collected Works. Sent to Tashkent. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1976], Moscow,Volume 35, page 518.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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August 7

Comrade Safarov,

Thank you very much for the pamphlet[1] and other material.

We are sending Joffe to make an attempt to _combine_your line and Tomsky’s.

That must be done.

Unquestionably grain and meat to Moscow, first and foremost.

For this purpose, both the “New Economic Policy” in general and a number of concessions and bonuses to the merchants.

At the same time, systematic and maximum concern for the Moslem poor, for their organisation and education.

Such a policy can and must be worked out and fixed (in a number of the most precise directives).

It must be a model for the whole East.

Best greetings.

Yours,
Lenin

P.S. After the line has been worked out, you, too, will probably be granted leave.

Notes

[1] Reference is to Safarov’s pamphlet Ocheredniye voprosy natsionalnoi politiki (Current Questions of the Nationalities Policy) published in 1921.