233. To THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.^[1]

Written on July 5, 1921 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53. Printed from the original. · page 202

I propose that this be approved by telephone with this addition: an assignment to buy the greatest possible quantities of wheat and rice.

5/VII.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on a memo to the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee from Deputy People’s Commissar for Food N. P. Bryukhanov and   Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade A. M. Lezhava, reporting the possibility of purchasing 5 million poods of wheat in North-Eastern Persia, and requesting the allocation of 4 million silver rubles for that purpose. On July 6, 1921, this was approved by the Politbureau.

On July 18, the Narrow C.P.C. appropriated 4 million rubles for the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade.