Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

364

To: V. A. SMOLYANINOV^[1]

Written: Written on September 4, 1921
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 285^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Smolyaninov:

The question of commodity exchangeis the most important one. You are to give it top priority.

In particular:

1) find Prodovolstvennaya Gazeta No. 97 and include in this file;

2) propose that the Central Uniono/ Consumers’ Societies should amplify thesedata of Khinchuk’s and print them;

3) send me what has been printed, stepping up the printing;

4) insert an item in Ekonomicheskaya Zhizngiving all manner of encouragement to the collectionand publication of factualdata on the commodity exchange (the quantities, or the equivalentsof some quantities).

Lenin

4/IX.

Notes

[1] Written in connection with a note from L. M. Khinchuk, Chairman of the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies, about improving commodity exchange in Orel, Bryansk and Gomel gubernias.

On June 17, 1921, No. 97 of Prodovolstvennaya Gazetacarried an article entitled “Experience in State Commodity Exchange”.