Lenin addresses
the All-Russian Conference of Peasants’ Deputies on agrarian policy. He made it
clear that nationalization of the lands was the Bolshevik policy, as opposed to
transfer of ownership to individual peasants as private property.
Under
nationalization, the state would own the land, and rent it back to farmers, “free
labor on free soil,” on terms “equal for all.” The party considered this the
best way to protect the livelihood of poor peasants as against the richer, petit bourgeois class of peasants. Model
farms were to be established on larger tracts confiscated from the nobility,
church, and crown.
You can read
Lenin’s address
to the conference by following the link.
At the front, the
Chief of Staff reported disaffection among the troops and continuing
fraternization with enemy troops. On the Rumanian front, he said, “…the
infantry does not want to advance.” Trotsky provides plenty of specific
examples of disaffection.
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