Vote tally - To Secure this Beachhead of Worker's Power: A Soviet Union Quest.
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-[X]Leninist Reform Plan: Lenin proposes that the chairman of the Central Executive Committee be given a permanent seat on Little Sovnarkom and observer status in Sovnarkom proper, and its number of members raised from 3 to 4. Two of the remaining three members would be decided by Sovnarkom, and the other appointed by the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee. Currently, it is Yakov Sverdlov who holds this position, one of the most astute and talented of Bolshevik politicians and administrators. Some People's commissars worry that giving Sverdlov such a position would unduly enhance his already considerable power - after all, in addition to his role as head of the executive committee, he is also the de facto leader of the Bolshevik Party apparatus. Thus far, he has remained loyal to Lenin, but he has also penned a series of left-wing critiques of Sovnarkom's economic policies, and some believe he has sympathies for Bukharin and the left-communists. (Note: This will shift the balance of power slightly toward the Executive Committee!)
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-[X]Agree to the meeting, but make no other comment: Stalin, Rykov, and Ordzhonikidze propose that we should simply accept the invitation, and wait to see which conditions America intends to put on recognition and trade. Regardless of any disagreements the present people's commissars might have on domestic policy, they argue that there is little reason to show too much eagerness toward the Americans, who might take this as a signal of weakness.
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[X] Plan: Common Lenin W
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-[X]Agree to the meeting, but make no other comment
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[X]The Narodnik Knows the Peasants Best
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[X]Agree to the meeting, but make no other comment
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-[x]Proletarians, not Bourgeois Specialists
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[X] Establishing Collective Ownership Of Agricultural Machinery
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[X] Department Of Technological Acquisition
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-[X]Let's keep what friends we have: Hesitant to alienate Spiridonova, Lenin suggests moving forward with a similar plan, but having Milyutin work in consultation with Spiridonova. Stalin, Rykov, and Milyutin himself all point out that this is likely to lead to bureaucratic imbroglios and confusion, but it might still be better than the alternatives.
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-[X]Proletarians, not Bourgeois Specialists: Alexandra Kollantai agrees that we should conduct a census, but wants to use party activists rather than professional bureaucrats to carry it out. This is an excellent project for youth and labor organizations; after all, going house-to-house, collecting information - this doesn't sound so different from running a political campaign, something which the Bolsheviks are very well-versed in. Some worry that farming out such matters-of-state to the party apparatus might set an unhealthy precedent, but Lenin, who enthusiastically supports this plan, reasons that concentrating power in the professional bureaucracies would be far more deleterious to the building of a worker's state than an expansion of the party's role. This argument appears to convince several commissars - Ordzhonikidze and Lunacharsky both speak up in its defense, pointing out that the party does have tens of thousands of enthusiastic activists who would gladly do such work.
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[X]Proletarians, not Bourgeois Specialists
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[X] It isn't much but it's honest work
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[X]Leninist Reform Plan
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[X] Plan: Soviet Centralist
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-[X]The Narodnik Knows the Peasants Best: Maria Spiridonova has remained loyal to our government and has spent years working tirelessly on behalf of the Russian peasant. The negotiations with Germany might very well alienate more of her left-SR comrades; let's try to keep this one on our side. Milyutin will not be happy with it, but placing the commissariat of agriculture in the hands of someone with the trust and adoration of the peasants would probably lead to a more effective survey. Of course, subordinating a commissariat to an executive committee department would set a precedent in favor of the latter. Additionally, Spiridinova is likely to want a longer, more detailed survey: we'll have to either pay to expand her personnel or content ourselves with the survey taking much longer…(Note: This will moderately move the balance of power in the direction of the Executive Committee, and significantly improve the left-SR's opinion of the government. It will also increase the power of the left-sr's.)
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-[X]Rykov's Plan: The Commissar of Internal Affairs argues that a census is very much necessary, that it impacts everything from production numbers, military recruitment, agricultural output to ethnic distribution and demand for social services (at this point, Skobelev and Kollantai glance at Rykok - he is citing from the motion as if the words were his own, but no matter...). He explains that his department presently does not have the personnel required for such a task, but he notes that there are many trained "bourgeois specialists" affiliated with the old, tsarist regime who could assist with a census. Perhaps if he was provided funding to hire them without facing charges of "right-wing deviation", he could put together a national census.
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-[X]Leninist Reform Plan
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-[X]Let's keep what friends we have
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-[x]Maintain the status quo
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-[x]The Narodnik Knows the Peasants Best
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[X]Maintain the status quo
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[X] Motion to add to Agenda: Recognize the various nationalities and ethnic makeup of the Union and reverse Russification programs of the past.
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[X]Rykov's Plan
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[X]Agree to the meeting, and provide assurances of goodwill
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[X]Our Agriculture is Perfectly Adequate
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[X]We Already have a Census
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[X] Plan: Labor Reserve
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-[X]Rykov's Plan
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[x]Power to the Left SRs
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[X]Menshevik Reform Plan
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[X] Agree to the meeting, but make no other commitment
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[X] Let's keep what friends we have
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