Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Plenum
Decision of C.C. (29.XI.1919)
Most Urgent
Chicherin to draw up detailed theses for a brief report to the Congress of Soviets on peace and the text of a declaration by the congress.[1] This text to contain a direct proposal of peace and peace negotiations without mentioning terms (such a variant to be submitted as will confirm all previous peace proposals, but without committing us).
[1] G. V. Chicherin’s report on the international situation was delivered to the Eighth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). The conference adopted the resolution on the international situation drafted by Lenin. In his report on the activities of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars to the Seventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets Lenin proposed this resolution as a draft resolution of the congress (see present edition, Vol. 30, p. 231). It was unanimously adopted by the congress as a peace proposal to the countries of the Entente.