476. To Y. A. PREOBRAZHENSKY

Written on October 28, 1921 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original. · page 364

28/X.

Comrade Preobrazhensky:

Read this and return to me.^[2]

I see that your optimism is refuted by the facts with increasing frequency.

There is need at all costs to work out:

1) calendar programme and

2) planned estimate:

(α) a given minimum of workers at such-and-such a rate so many thousand millions;

(β) debts coming to so much;

(γ) will cover by the following date, in this priority.

But, what is more, we must work a radical change in the whole pace of our monetary reform. Periculum in mora.^[1]

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] There is danger in delay.—Ed.

[2] A reference to I. S. Unschlicht’s letter about new salary rates for All-Russia Cheka officials.