85. TO A. D. TSYURUPA (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

85

To: A. D. TSYURUPA

Written: Written on March 8, 1921
Published: First published in part in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, pages 94c-95a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Tsyurupa:

We shall probably call our commission tonight,[1] (we shall hardly have any time during the day, after the opening[2], although we shall try).

The question is pivoted on “_turnover_”, free economic exchange for the peasantry.

You have not gone into the question deeply enough, since you were arguing against Rakovsky (I had no time for a rejoinder). The whole point is to be able to promote commerce, exchange (both export abroad from the south and_exchange with the factories_). Otherwise, we shall collapse.

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Think about this and find a formula to insert this.

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2) Ask for these figures right away; how much_grain_ we gave in January 1921 and in February(if there are no figures for the whole of February, then for one-third or two-thirds of it) 1921. How much imported, and how much altogether.

Lenin

Notes

[1] A reference to the commission set up at the Plenum of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee on March 7, 1921, to draft a law substituting a tax in kind for the surplus-food requisitioning, which was then adopted by the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.). On the commission were Lenin (Chairman), A. D. Tsyurupa, L. B. Kamenev and G. I. Petrovsky.

[2] A reference to the opening of the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)