V. I.   Lenin

Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on
The Management of the Cotton Industry^[1]

Written: Written October 27, 1921
Published: First published in 1964 in the Fifth Russian Edition of the Collected Words, Vol. 44. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Second Printing, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 357^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
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Comrade Bogdanov jointly with Comrade Kamenev shall be charged with revising both drafts with a view to eliminating the red tape in both of them and establishing a system of efficient management on really commercial lines.

The two texts of the proposals to be juxtaposed and circulated among the members of the Politbureau.

Notes

[1] The Politbureau (on the report of P. A. Bogdanov, N. I. Lebedev, G. N. Melnichansky and I. I. Kutuzov) considered the draft regulations on the management of the cotton industry at its meeting on October 27, 1921, and adopted Lenin’s motion. The amended instructions were afterwards endorsed by the Politbureau at its meeting cn November 3.