Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

394V. I. LENINof the farms with 4 hartkorns and over (36 dessiatins andover) each; they account for 62 per cent of all the land.(N. S., Agrarian Programmes, Novy Mir Publishers, p. 7.)Comment is superfluous.It is interesting to note that in the First Duma Denmarkwas put forward as a trump card by the liberal Herzenstein,to which the Right deputies (in both Dumas) retorted:in Denmark there is peasant ownership. We need nationalisationin our country in order to create freedom for theold farms to reorganise “on Danish lines” on the “unfenced”land. As for converting tenancy into ownership, there willbe no obstacle to that if the peasants themselves demandit, in such a matter the entire bourgeoisie and the bureaucracywill always support the peasantry. What is more,under nationalisation the development of capitalism (adevelopment “on Danish lines”) will be more rapid as a consequenceof the abolition of private ownership of land.6. THE TRUDOVIK PEASANTS (NARODNIKS)The Trudovik peasants and the Socialist-Revolutionarypeasants do not differ essentially from the non-party peasants.A comparison of their speeches clearly reveals thesame needs, the same demands, and the same outlook. Theparty peasants are merely more politically conscious, theyexpress themselves more clearly, and grasp more fully theconnection between the different aspects of the question.The best speech of all, perhaps, was that of the peasantKiselyov, a Trudovik, at the 26th session of the Second Duma(April 12, 1907). In contrast to the “state point of view”of the liberal petty bureaucrat, he emphasised the factthat “our government’s entire domestic policy, which isactually controlled by the landlords, is directed to keepingthe land in the possession of its present owners” (1943).The speaker showed that that was the reason why the peoplewere kept “in abysmal ignorance”, and then he wenton to deal with the speech delivered by the Octobrist, PrinceSvyatopolk-Mirsky. “You have, of course, not forgottenthe horrible things he said: ‘Abandon all idea of increasingthe area of peasant landownership. Preserve and supportthe private owners. Without landlords, our backward and