Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the Setting Up of a Single Commission on Concessions

Written October 17, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript. · page 351 · Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov

In view of offers from capitalists of neutral countries for concessions on some of the factories and branches of industry of the R.S.F.S.R., a committee of Comrades Trotsky, Bogdanov and Tsiperovich (with the right of the Petrograd Gubernia Committee of the Party to replace him by another comrade) shall be directed to prepare a decision for the Politbureau abolishing all previous commissions on this matter and setting up a single directing commission to deal with these affairs in all their aspect.^[1]

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[1] Lenin’s draft was adopted by the Politbureau on October 17, 1921.