V. I. Lenin

THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
AND THE TASKS OF THE
POLITICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS

REPORT TO THE SECOND ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS
OF POLITICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS
OCTOBER 17, 1921


 

Published in the Vtoroi Vserossiishy
syezd politprosvetov. Bulleten syezda

(Bulletin of the Second All-Russia
Congress of Political Education De-
partments) No. 2,
October 19, 1921

       

Published according to
the Bulletin proofs
corrected by Lenin
 
 
 


 
From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966

Vol. 33, pp. 60-79.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by David Skvirsky
and George Hanna


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


THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE TASKS OF THE POLITICAL
EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS. Report to the Second All-Russia
Congress of Political Education Departments
, October 17


 
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Abrupt Change of Policy of the Soviet Government and
 the R.C.P.
The 1918 Decision of the All-Russia Central Executive
 Committee on the Role of the Peasantry
Our Mistake
A Strategical Retreat
Purport of the New Economic Policy
Who Will Win. the Capitalist or Soviet Power?
The Fight Will Be Even Fiercer
Is This the Last Fight?
We Must not Count on Going Straight to Communism
The Principle of Personal Incentive and Responsibility
Shall We Be Able to Work for Our Own Benefit?
Obsolete Methods
The Greatest Miracle of All
Tasks of Political Educationalists
The Three Chief Enemies
  The First Enemy -- Communist Conceit
  The Second Enemy -- Illiteracy
  The Third Enemy -- Bribery
Difference Between Military and Cultural Problems


 
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