438. TO N. P. GORBUNOV (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

438

To: N. P. GORBUNOV

Published: First published In 1933 in Lenin Miscellany. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, pages 336b-337a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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13.X.1921

Comrade Gorbunov:

  1. The pamphlet must be returned to the author (after making a note of its title and the author’s place of work).[1]

  2. Try to find out in which libraries the book is available.

  3. Write to engineer N. S. Vetchinkin, asking him whether he could write an article on this question for_Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn_ or Izvestia.

Write a small pamphlet with the addition of conclusions from the latest (1914–1921) foreign literature.

  1. Propose that the S.E.C. Presidium should establish:

(a) the keeping of a correct inventory of our road-building machinery, by agreement with the War Department;

(b) persons responsible for the inventory and use of these machines (perhaps, these responsible persons should be at the S.E.C.’s Public Works Committee?);

(c) discuss whether or not a small number of tractors should be assigned to this work to carry it on regularly.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, C.P.C.

Notes

[1] A reference to a pamphlet by V. D. Batyushkov and N. S. Vetchinkin, Tverdiye gruntoviye dorogi (Hard-Cover Roads). The register of Lenin’s assignments to the C.P.C. and C.L.D. contains the following entry dated September 23, 1921: “Collect information about American machines for the fast laying of highways. Vladimir Ilyich heard about these machines from Comrade Bogdanov. Establish: = 1) How many machines do we have, where and how arc they working? = 2) What is the price of such machines abroad? 3) How far have they been improved? Get this thing going. Fulfilled October 3” (Istorichesky Arkhiv No. 5, 1961, p. 42).