Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on
Social Insurance[1]

Written October 10, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript. · page 347 · Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov

The Presidium of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, jointly with the Supreme Economic Council, the People’s Commissariats for Health and Social Security, shall be charged with working up the question of insurance for workers in connection with the new economic policy.

[1] This motion was adopted by the Politbureau on October 10, 1921. On November 15 the C.P.C. endorsed the Decree on Social Insurance of Employed Persons (see the newspaper Izvestia No. 263, November 23, 1921).