As a Marxist, Lenin believed that peasants were petty bourgeois individuals and stubbornly denied the collective patterns of peasant political resistance. Yet at the same time, he embraced the peasant militance that so strongly contrasted with what he called the preference of liberal and radical intellectuals for 'a little drab, beggarly but peaceful legality'. This compelling account of Lenin's peasant strategy, which emerged out of decades of contradiction between Marxist dogma and the realities of Russian rural life, makes abundantly clear both the reasons for Lenin's success and the sources of future disaster.
- ISBN10 0195036182
- ISBN13 9780195036183
- Publish Date 14 February 1985 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 August 1993
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 246
- Language English