ABSTRACT
Lenin solidarity on the fundamental problems of Socialist construction was so complete that Vladimir Ilych considered it possible to authorize me to make a speech in his place on those questions. The fact is that the proposal to shut down the Putilov shops was introduced in the Politburo at the beginning of 1923 by Comrade Rykov himself, as President of the Soviet of People's Economy. Rykov demonstrated that the Putilov shops will not be needed in the course of the next ten years, and that their artificial support will have a harmful effect upon other factories. Vladimir Ilych at first insisted upon my going, but afterward abandoned the idea. Due to the fact that the lowering of the norm established by Orders No. 1042 and 1157, the first brilliant experiment in planned industrial work, is temporary and due to the existing fuel crisis measures must be taken to support and restore the equipment and the shops.
