V. I. Lenin

INSTRUCTIONS
OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE
TO LOCAL SOVIET BODIES


 

First published as a pamphlet in 1921
 
 

Published according
to the text of the pamphlet
collated with the manuscript



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965

Vol. 32, pp. 375-98.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by Yuri Sdobnikov


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (July 1999)

INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE TO
LOCAL SOVIET BODIES.  Draft  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


375

   F i r s t  G r o u p  o f  Q u e s t i o n s

1.

Commodity Exchange with the Peasantry   .   .   .   .

383

2.

The State's Attitude to the Capitalists .   .   .   .   .

385

3.
 

Encouragement of Enterprise in Commodity Ex-
change, and in Economic Development in General .   .


385

4.
 
 

Co-ordination of the Economic Work of Various
Departments in the Local Administrative Areas:
Volosts, Uyezds and Gubernias .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


 
386

5.
6.

Improvement of the Condition of the Workers and
Ditto of the Peasants .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


387

7.
 

Increasing the Number of Government Officials in
Economic Development   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


388

8.
 

Methods and Results of Combating Bureaucratic
Practices and Red Tape  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


389


   S e c o n d  G r o u p  o f  Q u e s t i o n s

9.
 
 

Revival of Agriculture: a) Peasant Farming; b) State
Farms, c) Communes, d) Artels; e) Co-operatives;
f) Other Forms of Collective Farming .  .   .   .   .   .


 
390

10.
 
 
 

Revival of Industry: a) Large-Scale Industry Entire-
ly Controlled by the Centre, b) Large-Scale Industry
Controlled Wholly or Partly by Local Bodies;
c) Small, Handicraft, Domestic, etc., Industries  .   .


 
 
390

11.
 

Fuel: a) Firewood; b) Coal; c) Oil; d) Shale; e) Other
Types of Fuel (Waste Fuel, etc.)   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


391

12.

Food Supplies  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

391

13.

Building Industry .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

392

14.

Model and Hopeless Enterprises and Establishments .

392

15.

Improvement in Economic Work   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

392

16.

Bonuses in Kind .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

392

17.

The Trade Unions. Their Part in Production .   .   .   .

393

18.

Stealing .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

394

19.

Profiteering .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

394

20.

Use of Army Units for Labour  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

394

21.

Labour Service and Labour Mobilisation .   .   .   .   .

395


   T h i r d  G r o u p  o f  Q u e s t i o n s

22.

Regional and Local Economic Councils   .   .   .   .   .

395

23.
 
 

Gosplan (The State General Planning Commission of
the C.L.D.) and Its Relationships with Local Econom-
ic Bodies .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


 
396

24.

Electrification .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

396

25.

Commodity Exchange with Foreign Countries  .   .   .

397

26.

Railway, Water and Local Transport .   .   .   .   .   .

397

     27.

Press Publicity for Economic Work   .   .   .   .   .   .

397


   F o u r t h  G r o u p  o f  Q u e s t i o n s  .   .   .   .   .   .


398


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