Bolshevik Leaders correspondence

Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.

No. 225

E. M. Yaroslavsky — G. K. Ordzhonikidze

August 11, 1927

Tov. Sergo,

I ask you to consider at your leisure:

Is it necessary to maintain such a position of the Party Collegium, which exists now? one

Seven members of the Central Control Commission solve the case by calling living people, studying documents, listening to the "sides", witnesses, etc.

Then the minutes of the meeting are printed and duplicated for the meeting with [the secretary] of the Central Control Commission (where now, for example, all questions are decided, besides me, by two more members of the Central Control Commission). At this meeting, usually without studying documents, without hearing live people, sometimes minutes are approved in five minutes or even less.

At the same time: extra correspondence and five days of red tape (from the meeting [of] the p[art] collegium to the meeting [of] the [secretariat]).

What guarantee is there that the second decision of the s[secretary] is more correct if the decision of the n[art]collegium is reversed or changed? No.

I reviewed the cases for about half a year that passed through the p[art] board and the secretariat. Only about 1% of cases received a different decision after reviewing them in the secretariat. Are you sure that even this 1% of cases are resolved in the secretariat more correctly than in the p[art] board? I'm not sure.

If you can not rely on the party collegium, you can choose a more reliable composition - and nothing more.

Think. In my opinion, it will be easier and more accurate, and there will be more responsibility for decisions.

If I am not firm enough as the chairman of the p[art]collegium, I can find "harder".

Eat. Yaroslavsky.

11.VIII. 27.

RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. Op. 27. D. 250. L. 1. Autograph.

Notes:

1 According to the Party Rules adopted by the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in December 1925, between the plenums of the Central Control Commission (to direct the current work of the organs of the Central Control Commission), the Presidium of the Central Control Commission and its executive body, the Secretariat, were formed. To consider cases of violation of party ethics, the charter and the program of the CPSU (b), the Party Collegium of the Central Control Commission (CPSU in resolutions ... T. 3. S. 485) was created.