Written: Written on November 30, 1921
Published:
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
page 391b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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30/XI.
Comrade Belov:
I agree with you on the idea.
Give this thing a push in practice, i.e., draft a decision (perhaps it is better this way: first, select the personnel, and then write a draft decision).
I think there is no need to leave the Party. I object.
You should remain in the Department Store and get things running on model lines.[1]
With communist greetings,
Lenin
P.S. Concerning release from the Narrow Council, get Kiselyov’s opinion.
[1] Apparently written in connection with the question of giving the State Department Store (GUM) permission to work together with foreign capitalists in export-import trade, and to set up a joint-stock company for that purpose.
GUM was set up by a Narrow C.P.C. decision of October 3, 1921, on organising an inter-ministerial department store.
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