Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

NOTES569146147148the International Alliance of Socialist Youth Organisations, whichwas affiliated with the Zimmerwald Left (published in Zurichfrom September 1915 to May 1918).In November 1919, a facsimile of the opening paragraph wasused as an illustration to a special edition of Det röda Ryssland.1917 11/7 1919, issued by the Left- wing Socialist publishers Fram(Forward) in Stockholm to mark the second anniversary of theOctober Socialist Revolution in Russia. p. 386Delivered to the All- Russia Central Executive Committee onDecember 14 (27), 1917, in connection with a discussion of thedecree nationalising the banks.Work on practical measures for the nationalisation of thebanks was started as soon as the socialist revolution won out.The State Bank was seized on October 25 (November 7), 1917.Having overcome the sabotage of the bourgeois officials, Sovietpower soon established practical control of the State Bank andset up control over private banks as a transitional measure totheir nationalisation. However, because of sabotage by the bankers,the Soviet Government speeded up the nationalisation ofprivate banks. On the morning of December 14 (27), the Governmentordered workers’ detachments and Red Guard units to seizeall banks and credit institutions in Petrograd. That same day,the All- Russia Central Executive Committee adopted decrees“On the Nationalisation of the Banks” and “On the Inspection ofSteel Safes in Banks”.Both decrees were published in Izvestia No. 252 on December15 (28). p. 388The draft decree was tabled by Lenin for the approval of the SupremeEconomic Council in mid- December 1917, and was firstpublished in the magazine Narodnoye Khozyaistvo (The NationalEconomy) No. 11 for November 1918. The last paragraph comesfrom the manuscript and is published here for the first time.Narodnoye Khozyaistvo—the organ of the Supreme EconomicCouncil; published from March 1918 to December 1922.p. 391The questions were raised by Lenin on December 17 (30), 1917-at a conference of delegates to the Army Congress on the Demobilisationof the Army whom the Congress had elected to participatein a Commission for the Demobilisation of the Army underthe People’s Commissariat for the Army. No answers or summariesof answers have been discovered in the archives. It wouldappear that the answers helped Lenin to arrive at the firm convictionthat it would be impossible to continue the war with theGermans, and were taken into account in working out the Party’stactics at the peace talks with Germany. The results of the questionnairewere discussed by the government on December 18 (31)after a report given by N. V. Krylenko on the situation at thefront and the morale of the army. The government resolved to