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

V. I. Lenin

371

To: A. O. ALSKY

Written: Written on September 7, 1921
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, pages 290b-291a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Alsky:

I asked you for data only from August.[1]Henceforth:

  1. keep a special record of expenditures and issues from the gold stock in a strictly chronological order (of course, apart from the grouping by People’s Commissariats or under specified heads, where such are required);

  2. be sure to set apart the expenditure out of the gross amount appropriated by a general decision (say, the appropriations of 100 million for foodstuffs) from the additional spending not provided for by any general decisions.

Unless you observe these rules you will not have a report but chaos in which you yourself will be snarled up. Before issuing any further instructions, I shall await your reply which you are to give me tomorrow.

Lenin

Notes

[1] See Document 368 of this volume.—Ed.