[Written February 12, 1921] |
Published according |
From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965
Vol. 32, pp. 134-36.
Translated from the Russian
Edited by Yuri Sdobnikov
page 134
To Members of the Political Bureau
and Comrade Rykov,
Stalin,
Bukharin,
Kamenev,
Krestinsky,
Rykov
    We are in receipt of replies to the Political Bureau's query concerning oil concessions both from Krasin (and Bogdatyan) and Chairman of Glavneft[*] Dosser and his four experts.
    In connection with the report, The State of the Oil Industry by the End of 1920 (Baku, 1920), I am sending these replies on to Comrade Stalin, and request all members of the Political Bureau to ring him up to obtain all this materia] and read it in good time. (All you have to do with regard to the printed report is to read through what I have marked off with a blue pencil on the pages listed on the cover, that is, on the page before the text.)
    This material needs to be read urgently, because it is desirable to have a Political Bureau decision (8.00 p.m . Monday, February 14).
    The material gives ample proof that:
    (a) disaster is imminent ;
    (b) everything must be done to lease out the concessions in Baku (that is, find the concessionaires);
    (c) the Glavneft Chairman is extremely stupid. Stupidity in such high quarters is a menace.
    These three points summed up: