The Agrarian Question (1906)

  • Author: Stalin
  • Date: March 1906
  • Location: Russia
  • Link: www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/AQ06.html
  • PDF: see attachment at the bottom of this page.

The old order is breaking up, the countryside is in upheaval. The peasantry, who only yesterday were crushed and downtrodden, are today rising to their feet and straightening their backs. The peasant movement, which only yesterday was helpless, is today sweeping like a turbulent flood against the old order: get out of the way — or I'll sweep you away! "The peasants want the landlords' land," "The peasants want to abolish the remnants of serfdom" — such are the voices now heard in the rebellious villages and hamlets of Russia.

  • Author: Stalin
  • Date: March 1906
  • Location: Russia
  • Link: www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/AQ06.html
  • PDF: see attachment at the bottom of this page.

The old order is breaking up, the countryside is in upheaval. The peasantry, who only yesterday were crushed and downtrodden, are today rising to their feet and straightening their backs. The peasant movement, which only yesterday was helpless, is today sweeping like a turbulent flood against the old order: get out of the way — or I'll sweep you away! "The peasants want the landlords' land," "The peasants want to abolish the remnants of serfdom" — such are the voices now heard in the rebellious villages and hamlets of Russia.

Those who count on silencing the peasants by means of bullets are mistaken: life has shown us that this only serves still further to inflame and intensify the revolutionary peasant movement.

 

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