457. TO A. O. ALSKY (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

457

To: A. O. ALSKY

Written: Written on October 21, 1921
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, page 350a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Secret
21.X.

Comrade Alsky:

Please have information sent me on the reserve, emergency fund of bank-notes:

(1) monthly, so long as the fund is not < 1,000,000 million,

(2) twice a month, if it is not < 500,000 million,

(3) weekly, if it is not < 250,000 million,

(4) daily, if less.

Also let me know _the procedure governing the expenditure_of the emergency fund (who has the right to make disbursements? what are the formalities involved? etc.).

Think this over and let me know with the utmost secrecy, in a sewn-up and sealed envelope, addressed for personaldelivery, into Lenin’s own hands, from Alsky.[1]

Lenin

Notes

[1] Documents at the Central Party Archives show that beginning from November 1, 1921, Lenin received reports on the reserve emergency fund twice a month (see also this volume, Documents 459 and 460).