603. TO L. B. KAMENEV AND J. V. STALIN (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

603

To: L. B. KAMENEV AND J. V. STALIN

Written: Written on January 25, 1922
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, page 450b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrades Kamenev and Stalin:

I have just learned—to my horror—from Sokolnikov that he rejects (!) the Politbureau’s directive concerning the trio (he + Preobrazhensky + Krasnoshchekov).

This is chaos!

This is a scandal!

This means that the C.C. apparatus is not working! This should be reaffirmed not later than tomorrow.[1]

And—I insist again and again—that no question should be allowed to go to the Supreme Economic Commission_without the written proposals and counter-proposals of the People’s Commissars and their deputies or assistants_concerned. Otherwise this is chaos,
red tape,
empty talk,
irresponsibility.

9.30 p.m. 25/I.

Lenin

Notes

[1] On February 2, 1922, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. adopted a decision to the effect that questions having a fundamental bearing on R.S.F.S.R. financial policy or going up for decision by the Politbureau were to be examined beforehand by a trio consisting of G. Y. Sokolnikov, A. M. Krasnoshchekov and Y. A. Preobrazhensky.