Applications for Foreign Trade Orders

Draft Resolution for the C.P.C.[1]

Written April 12, 1921 · First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from the manuscript. · page 297 · Translated by Bernard Isaacs

The State Planning Commission shall be directed to revise both the applications for orders to the amount of 38.9 million gold rubles and the remaining applications for foreign trade orders to allow only for such purchases in 1921-22 as are necessary for purveyance of essential minimum quantities of food and fuel based on the assumption of a worst possible harvest and worst possible conditions of fuel supply.


[1] This draft, with certain corrections in the wording, was adopted by the C.P.C. on April 12, 1921. This question was referred to the State Planning Commission for detailed examination, in which connection Lenin wrote two letters to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky (see present edition, Volume 35, pages 486-88).