Marks on N. L. Meshcheryakov's Letter and a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) (original) (raw)
V. I. Lenin
Marks on N. L. Meshcheryakov’s Letter and a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Written: Written February 14, 1922
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 42, page 399.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala and D. Walters
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as regards the newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo.
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The Board of Centrosoyuz, which consists only of Communists, says that the newspaper is necessary if the co-operatives are to fulfil their difficult and new organising work and carry out the trade tasks imposed upon them.
The paper’s editorial board consists only of Communists: I, Sarabyanov, Shvetsov, Kutuzov-Ilimsky, etc.
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A delegation of Western co-operators is coming to Russia. The closing of the newspaper will be taken ad vantage of by the old co-operators and will make co-operative work difficult.
The closing of the newspaper will be exploited at the Genoa Conference.
ha—ha!!
- So far there has been nothing hostile to Soviet power or communism in the paper...
February 11, 1922
N. Meshcheryakov
To Comrade Molotov for the Politbureau:
in view of the obvious flimsiness of Comrade Meshcheryakov’s arguments, I propose:
that the Board of Centrosoyuz be directed to replace the daily newspaper Kooperativnoye Dyelo with a weekly;
the personnel and funds thus released should be used wholly for improving the activities of headquarters in supervising and helping to develop proper trade by the co-operatives locally;
reports on the fulfilment of § 2 to be made monthly to the Politbureau;
more contributions to be made to Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn
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