Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

160

To: N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Written: Written on May 11, 1921
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 143^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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11/V.

Comrade Bryukhanov:

I am sending you the coded message.^[1] Read it carefully, make a note of the figures and return to me.

You will have to draw up a precise planof use, i.e., allocation of imported products from May 15 to June 15. St. Petersburg and Moscow at the top of the list. This plan should be reviewed after every cable of any sizablepurchases.

Send me the first such plan.

Fish, as follows.

French beans (have you decided?), as follows.

Wheat, as follows.

Think about what could go into the pressby way of reassurance.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] An apparent reference to N. K. Klyshko’s telegram of May 9, 1921. Replying to the telegram from Lenin and Krasin of May 7 (see Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 52, Supplements, Document 33), Klyshko informed them about the purchase in America of 20,000 poods of wheat flour, with delivery at Revel by May 15, and 200,000 with delivery at Petrograd by mid-June, and about delivery at Revel of 125,000 poods by the end of April. (“Where are these 125,000? How have they been distributed?”, Lenin wrote over this report.) Klyshko also promised to supply additional information about the possibility of further grain purchases, requested the sending of the warrant and the currency, and asked: “Is it all right, in order to speed up and reduce the cost, to send in up to 25 per cent of maize and bean flour as an admixture to the wheat flour?” “Of course!” replied Lenin, under-scoring the word “admixture” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).