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

576 NOTES172173174175176177178179(February 1) increased the food ration to one- half pound for thewhole population of Petrograd. p. 501The question of the nationalisation of the merchant marine andinland water transport was discussed at a meeting of the Councilof People’s Commissars on January 18 (31), 1918. It heard threereports: one from Tsentrovolga, another from the Central Committeeof the All- Russia Seamen’s and River Transport Workers’Union, and a third from the Supreme Economic Council. Lenin’sdraft was approved as a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars“On Seamen and River Transport Workers”.p. 505The reference is to the Central Committee of the All- Russia Seamen’sand River Transport Workers’ Union. p. 505The reference is to a demand made by a group of Left Communists—Bukharin, Lomov (Oppokov), Osinsky (Obolensky) and others—on January 15 (28), 1918, to the Central Committee of theR.S.D.L.P.(B.) for a Party conference to discuss and decide onthe question of peace. p. 507Lenin’s proposal for a congress was adopted. It was first set bythe C.C. meeting of January 19 (February 1), 1918, for February20, but was later postponed until March 6, 1918.p. 507Lenin’s proposal for a conference of various groups on peace wasadopted. It was held on January 21 (February 3), 1918, but nominutes are available. There is only a record of the vote on 10questions connected with the conclusion of peace (see Minutes ofthe Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), August 1917-February1918, in Russian, 1958, pp. 190- 91). On the main question—Is it permissible to sign a German annexationist peace now?—five participants said yes. They were Lenin, Stalin, Muranov,Artyom (Sergeyev) and Sokolnikov; 9 voted against. They wereLomov (Oppokov), Krestinsky, Bubnov, Kosior, Osinsky (Obolensky),Stukov, Preobrazhensky, Spunde and Fenigstein. Zinoviev,Bukharin and Uritsky left the conference before the vote.p. 509The reference is to a break in telegraph communications betweenMoscow and Brest-Litovsk due to German tampering.p. 510The reference is to the fact cited in a report to the Third Congressof Soviets on January 16 (29), 1918, by a participant in the CossackCongress in Kamenskaya. p. 516The telegram is in reply to Trotsky’s query on the German ultimatumat Brest-Litovsk on January 15 (28), 1918.