The Middle Peasants
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~420 words · 2 passages
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- APAVladimir Lenin. (n.d.). The Middle Peasants. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants
- MLAVladimir Lenin. The Middle Peasants. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants.
- ChicagoVladimir Lenin. The Middle Peasants. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-middle-peasants.
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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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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 government must be regarded merely as advice, as a suggestion to the middle peasants, as an invitation to them to accept the new order. Only by co-operation in the work of testing these measures in practice, finding out in what way they are mistaken, eliminating possible errors and achieving agreement with the middle peasant-only by such co-operation can the alliance between the workers and the peasants be ensured. This alliance is the main strength and the bulwark of Soviet power; this alliance is a pledge that socialist transformation will be successful, victory over capital will be achieved and exploitation in all its forms will be abolished.