Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Decree for
The C.P.C. on Supplying Agriculture with Implements and Metals^[1]

Written: April 23, 1918
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Second Printing, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 91^a.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
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The basic principle to be applied in the distribution of agricultural machines, etc., should be, on the one hand and in the first place, due concern for agricultural production, for cultivation of all the land and for raising the productivity of agriculture, and, on the other, the supply of agricultural machines, etc., first of all to the working and poor sections of the rural population, with the common object of providing a proper and sufficient supply of breadstuff for the whole population.

Notes

[1] The draft decree was on the agenda of the C.P.C. sitting of April 22, 1918, but its consideration was postponed until the next meeting. The addendum to it was introduced by Lenin after he had examined the draft. On April 23 the C.P.C. adopted the decree in toto with Lenin’s addendum and the next day finally endorsed it with certain amendments (a new clause was inserted). Therefore Lenin’s addendum in the text published in Izvestia No. 84 for April 27, 1918, applies to §7 of the Decree on Supplying Agriculture With Implements and Metals (see Decrees of the Soviet Government, Vol. II, Moscow, 1959, pp. 169-72).]