By C. J. Storella
This publication offers the 1st entire assortment in English of peasant writings through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn solely from Russian archival assets, it features more than 150 formerly unpublished letters addressed to newspapers, govt officers, and Communist get together leaders. The letters and accompanying statement bring about a distinct heritage of the Soviet peasantry's engagement and fight with a robust country, allowing readers to listen to the voice of a social type that all through background has too frequently been rendered unvoiced.
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As a result, the Bolsheviks now confronted millions of agriculturalists who, having just wrested control of the land from their landlords, were not inclined to conjoin their hard-won holdings in collective farms. ”22 To succeed in their mission, therefore, the Bolsheviks, who by and large concurred with Luxemburg’s characterization of the peasantry, had to find some means of circumventing history in order to extend the socialist revolution into the villages and settlements of rural Russia. From a Marxist standpoint, Luxemburg’s observation was self-evident.
The ruling regime’s campaign to establish Soviet administrative control over the countryside proceeded in fits and starts until the completion of the bloody first stage of collectivization, a decade-and-a-half-long struggle between state and peasant that one historian has called the greatest of all European peasant wars. During this period, Bolshevik state-building continuously clashed with peasant traditions, institutions, and self-interest. As the sides confronted one another, both employed a variety of tactics.
2 The peasants who wrote to the paper were not content to read from a prepared text, but took full advantage of the opportunity afforded them to communicate their frustrations and disappointments in their own fashion, to point fingers and name names, and to articulate alternative visions of the life they believed the revolution had made possible not only in their villages or even just in the countryside but throughout the former Russian empire and beyond. “Krestianskaia Gazeta: The Friend and Defender of the Peasantry” Following the civil war, Lenin’s well-known prerevolutionary emphasis on the organizational centrality of the press found expression in the Communist Party’s creation of newspapers, Krestianskaia gazeta among them, aimed at specific social groups like peasants, women, and soldiers.