Published: Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source:Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1976, Moscow,Volume 45, page
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:R. Cymbala
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It looks as though it has been possible to take theposition without a single shot, by a simple manoeuvre. Isuggest that we should not stop and should continue theoffensive, and for that purpose put through a motion to raiseat the Party congress the question of consolidating ourforeign trade, and the measures to improve itsimplementation. This to be announced in the group of the Congressof Soviets. I hope that you will not object to this, and willnot refuse to give a report in the group.
N. Lenin
December 21, 1922
[1]On December 18, 1922, the Plenum of the R.C.P.(B.) CentralCommittee rescinded a decision taken by the plenum in October,and reaffirmed “the absolute need to maintain and effect theorganisational strengthening of the foreign trade monopoly” (CentralParty Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of theC.P.S.U. Central Committee). The Twelfth Party Congress, heldin Moscow from April 17 to 25, 1923, also confirmed that theforeign trade monopoly was not to be tampered with.