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.
[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.
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