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

588November 10(23)THE LIFE AND WORK OF V. I. LENINLenin reports to the All-Russia Central ExecutiveCommittee on the talks with Dukhonin.Lenin approves and signs the decree abolishingsocial estates and civil ranks.November 12(25)November 1(27)November 15(28)November 16(29)November 18(December 1)The government instruction to the RevolutionaryMilitary Committee on strict measures to eradicatespeculation and sabotage, written by Lenin,appears in Izvestia No. 223.Lenin speaks before the Extraordinary All-RussiaCongress of Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies on theagrarian question and reads out his draft resolutionon the attitude of the Congress to the Decreeon Land.Lenin presides at a government meeting to discussthe establishment of an Economic Council.Lenin presides at a government meeting to discussa draft decree on revolutionary courts and theabolition of all the old judicial institutions; transferof Ukrainian national relics to the Ukrainianpeople, talks with the Left Socialist-Revolutionarieson their participation in the government, etc.Lenin delivers a summing-up speech on the agrarianquestion at the Extraordinary All-RussiaCongress of Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies.Lenin presides at a government meeting to discussthe questions of a Supreme Economic Conference;nationalisation of factories in the Donets area;and salaries for People’s Commissars. Lenin’sdraft resolution is adopted.November 19(December 2)Lenin writes the draft decree of the All-RussiaCentral Executive Committee on the right ofelectors to recall deputies, and the right of Sovietsof Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants Deputies toappoint re-elections to all representative institutions,including the Constituent Assembly.Lenin presides at a meeting of the government,writes a draft resolution on a report on a warministry. Other items discussed at the meetinginclude the situation in the Ukraine and thequestion of the Central Rada; the query of theMoscow Soviet about the right of Soviets to se-