Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

S.R. PARTY CHEATS PEASANTS ONCE AGAIN233concessions on trifles and allowing the landowners to keepwhat is important.The fact that the Socialist-Revolutionaries have submittedsuch a mean bill to the government really shows the’ incrediblehypocrisy of those who accuse the Bolsheviks of‘frustrating” the Constituent Assembly with their plans fortransferring power to the Soviets. “Only 40 days till theConstituent Assembly”—Cadets, capitalists, landowners,Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, all have joinedin this hypocritical cry. Meanwhile, they slip the governmenta sweeping land bill, swindling the peasants, saddlingthem with landlords, consolidating landed property.When it comes to supporting the landowners against themounting peasant uprising, a sweeping bill can be rushedthrough 40 and even 30 days before the Constituent Assemblyis due to meet.When it comes to transferring all power to the Sovietsin order to hand over all the land to the peasants, at onceabolish landed property and at once offer a just peace, thenCadets, capitalists, landowners, Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries all join in the howl against the Bolsheviks.The peasants must know how they have been cheated andbetrayed to the landowners by the Socialist-RevolutionaryParty.The peasants must know that it is only the workers’party, the Bolsheviks, who are prepared to stand to the lastfor the interests of the poor peasants and all working peopleagainst the capitalists and the landowners.October 20, 1917.Published on November 6October 24), 1927,in Rabochy Put No. 44Signed: N. LeninPublished accordingto the newspaper text