48. To N. P. GORBUNOV

Written on January 25, 1921 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 74

Comrade Gorbunov:

A decision was adopted today to have you see to the execution of C.P.C. decisions.^[1]

This business must be organised on the correct lines: you must always have a file or list of decisions which have not been carried out or require constant supervision (over execution).

25/1.

Lenin

Notes

[1] The Council of People’s Commissars decided: “To authorise Comrade Gorbunov to establish thorough supervision over the fulfilment of C.P.C. decisions, especially those not specifying dates of execution” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).