Addendum to the Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on
Directives to the People’s Commissariat for Food[1]

Written September 5 or 6, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript. · page 341 · Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov

Add:

(1) reduction of the number of recipient enterprises (receiving bread from the state);

(2) bread rationing not to be increased without special permission of the C.C.


[1] Owing to food difficulties, the crop failure and the need for ren-dering relief to the famine-stricken areas, the Politbureau, on September 6, 1921. adopted a decision on directives to the Food Commissariat with Lenin’s amendments. The directives provided for a reduction in the number of recipients of state food supplies as from October 1921, and the establishment of a grain fund.