Written: Written on October 28, 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 364b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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28/X.
Comrade Preobrazhensky:
Read this and return to me.[2]
I see that your optimism is refuted by the facts with increasing frequency.
There is need at all costs to work out:
1) calendar programme and
2) planned estimate:
(α) a given minimum of workers at such-and-such a rate so many thousand millions;
(β) debts coming to so much;
(γ) will cover by the following date, in this priority.
But, what is more, we must work a radical change in the whole pace of our monetary reform. Periculum in mora.[1]
With communist greetings,
Lenin
[1] There is danger in delay.—Ed.
[2] A reference to I. S. Unschlicht’s letter about new salary rates for All-Russia Cheka officials.
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