360. To N. P. GORBUNOV AND V. A. SMOLYANINOV^[1]

Written on September 3, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 283

  Gorbunov and Smolyaninov

This should be given special attention:

1) demand precise reports from the Byelorussian People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade;

2) use their experience for the whole Central Union of Consumers’ Societies of the R.S.F.S.R.;

3) take steps to reduce the shortage of goods also outside the boundaries of Byelorussia.

Consult with Kissin, take measures and let me know.

Lenin

3/IX.

Notes

[1] Written on L. B. Krasin’s letter setting out the measures which the Byelorussian People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade was taking to develop trade with foreign countries.