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Foreword to the Pamphlet "How the Socialist Revolutionaries Cheated the People and What the New Bolshevik Government Has Given the People"
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972, pp. 314-315
The peasants of Russia are now faced with the prospect of taking their countryâs destiny into their own hands.
The victory of the workersâ revolution in the two leading Cities and in most of the rest of Russia has given the peasants the possibility of taking the land arrangements into their own hands. Not all peasants have as yet realised that their Soviets of Peasantsâ Deputies are the true, authentic, supreme state power, but they soon will.
When they do realise it, their alliance with the workers, the alliance of the bulk of the peasantsâthe poor, working peasantsâwill be consolidated. This alliance, both in the Soviets and the Constituent Assembly, and not the alliance of the peasants and the capitalists, is the only one really capable of ensuring the working peopleâs interests.
It will surely very soon be brought home to the peasants that if they are to be rid of the horrors of war and the oppression of the landowners and capitalists, they must ally themselves with the working people of the towns, above all the factory workers, and not with the rich.
If the peasants are to see this soon, they must, among other things, make a closer and more amply documented comparison of the promises and draft laws of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and the Decree on Land issued by the new, workersâ and peasantsâ government.
Such a comparison is made in this pamphlet. It gives the documents, which is the first thing anyone needs if he is going to use his head. The main document relating to the Socialist-Revolutionaries is their Minister Maslovâs draft land law. I take it in full from Dyelo Naroda (Chernovâs newspaper). I am also republishing in full my own article on the subject from Robochy Put.
The Decree on Land issued by the workersâ and peasantsâ government is also given in full.
Peasant comrades, seek the truth about the various parties, and you shall find it! Collect and compare the draft land laws proposed by the various parties.
You must read carefully the draft land law put forward by the Socialist-Revolutionary minister, and the Decree on Land issued by the present Bolshevik government, which received its powers from the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets. We have no doubt at all as to what the peasantsâ final conclusion will be.
N. Lenin
Petrograd,
November 9, 1917