TELEGRAM TO FACTORIES MAKING ELECTRIC PLOUGHS[1]

Written on December 31, 1920 · First published in 1956 in the journal Istorichesky Arkhiv No. 4. Printed from the journal text. · page 531

I request that every effort be made to fulfil the order of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture for 22 electric ploughs with spare parts not later than April 1, 1921. Telegraph weekly on the state of fulfilment of the order to Gorbunov, Council of People’s Commissars.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars


[1] Sent to the Petrograd Economic Council, factory managements and factory trade union committees in Petrograd (Baltic, Metal, Obukhov, Siemens-Schuckert, Dumeau, Severny Cable, and the Arsenal), and also to the Electrical and Metal Departments of the Supreme Economic Council, the Moscow plants of Dynamo and Izolyator, and the Kolchugino Works.