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49 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1934)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry49 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume XLIX] M POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE SOVIET UNION I AS early as 1906, Lenin, fully recognizing in the agrarian events of 1904-5 the halibingers of a social revolution, nevertheless saw fit to admonish his followers in these words: We are supporting the peasant movement to the last, but we must remember that this is not the class which is capable of bringing about or will bring about a socialist revo- lution.' This attitude toward the peasantry flows directly from what Lenin called a truism known to every Marxian, that the leading social forces in every capitalistic society are the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, while all the other social groups who occupy an intermediate position . . . inevitably gravitate in the direction of the first or second major group. 2 In the light of the position of the peasantry during the French Revolution, in the revolutionary movement of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, and in the first decade of the twentieth in Russia, Lenin held that all the attempts of the petite-bourgeoisie in general, and the peasantry in particular, to assert their power and direct economic and political policies along their own lines, ended in defeat. ' Soon after the out- break of the February Revolution of -rgl he warned his fol- lowers that a union of the peasantry with the bourgeoisie might take place. Hence, the proletarian party at present must not 1 Lenin, N., Peresmotr Agrarnoi Programmy Rabochei Partii (A Reixami- nation of the Agrarian Program of the Workers Party) (St. Petersburg, 1906), p. 27. 2 Lenin, N., Sobranie Sochinenli (Collected Works) (Moscow, 2d ed.), vol. XXIII, p. 290. * Ibid., vol. XXVI, p. 290. March, r934 [ Number r

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