The Middle Peasants
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- English
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- ~420 words · 2 passages
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- APAVladimir Lenin. (n.d.). The Middle Peasants. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants
- MLAVladimir Lenin. "The Middle Peasants." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants.
- ChicagoVladimir Lenin. The Middle Peasants. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants.
What it is about
On the middle peasants and what was to be done with them.
Context and history
**Two fragments.** The question was not minor: policy towards this stratum decided much of what happened in the Russian countryside in the years that followed. ⚠️ It appears in the catalogue with very little text: **a fragment, not the work**. Flagged until it can be fetched whole. The original is in RUSSIAN. This is an English translation; for citation, the original.
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The most important question now confronting the Communist Party, the question on which most attention was concentrated at the last Party Congress, is that of the middle peasants. Naturally, the first question usually asked is, what is a middle peasant? Naturally, Party comrades have often related how they have been asked this question in the villages. The middle peasant, we say in reply, is a peasant who does not exploit the labour of others, who does not live on the labour of others, who does not take the fruits of other people's labour in any shape or form, but works himself, and lives by his own labour. Under capitalism there were fewer peasants of this typo than there are now, because the majority of the peasants were in the ranks of the impoverished, and only an insignificant minority, then, as now, were in the ranks of the kulaks, the exploiters, the rich peasants. The middle peasants have been increasing in number since the private ownership of land was abolished, and the Soviet government has firmly resolved at all costs to establish relations of complete peace and harmony with them. It goes without saying that the middle peasant cannot immediately accept socialism, because he clings firmly to what he is accustomed to, he is cautious about all innovations, subjects what he is offered to a factual, practical test and does not decide to change his way of life until he is convinced that the change is necessary. It is precisely for this reason that we must know, remember and put into practice the rule that when Communist workers go into rural districts they must try to establish comradely relations with the middle peasants, it is their duty to establish these comradely relations with them; they must remember that working peasants who do not exploit the labour of others are the comrades of the urban workers and that we can and must establish with them a voluntary alliance inspired by sincerity and confidence. Every measure proposed by the communist governmen
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