2. To THE NARROW COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS

To the Narrow Council:

Written on November 6, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. Printed from the original. · page 48

Bryukhanov does not agree.

It is not right to decree such things without Bryukhanov’s specific written consent in each separate case.^[1]

6/XI

Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on a resolution adopted by the Narrow Council of People’s Commissars on November 4, 1920, which was typed on a C.P.C. letterhead and sent in for Lenin’s signature. It dealt with an extra-budgetary credit of 5 million rubles for the C.P.C. Managing Department to buy vegetables for the C.P.C. hospital.