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

NOTES523979899100101102103under the title, Vl. Ilyin (N. Lenin), The Agrarian Programme ofSocial-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1906-1907(Petrograd. Zhizn i Znaniye Publishers)The 1917 edition of this book was printed from the mutilatedcopy, which broke off at the following unfinished sentence: “Thereformative path of creating a Junker-bourgeois Russia presupposesthe preservation of the foundations of the old system oflandownership and their slow” ... (See present volume, p. 425.) Tothis Lenin added the words: “systematic, and most painful coercionof the mass of the peasantry. The revolutionary path of creating apeasant bourgeois Russia necessarily presupposes the break-up ofthe, old system of landownership, the abolition of the privateownership of the land.”The present edition is reproduced from the manuscript correctedby Lenin several years after the 1908 edition. p. 217Allotment land—the plots of land allotted to the peasants after theabolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861; they belonged to the villagecommune and were periodically reallotted among the peasants fortheir use. p. 220Crown lands—land made over in 1797 out of the total of state landsto the members of the tsarist household as their private propertytogether with the peasants who worked it; by a ukase of Paul I.The revenue from the exploitation of the crown-land peasants wasused for the upkeep of the imperial family (including the Granddukes, their wives, daughters, etc.). These sums were not includedin the state budget and were not subject to control by the state.p. 222Winter hiring—the system practised by the landlords and kulaks ofhiring peasants for summer work in the winter, when the peasantswere badly in need of money and compelled to accept enslavingterms. p. 225General Redistribution—a slogan expressing the peasants’ urgetowards a general redistribution of the land and the abolition oflandlordism. p. 230Gurko-Lidval methods of administration—this refers to the embezzlement,profiteering, and extortion that reigned among the highertsarist officials and government contractors. Gurko was DeputyMinister of the Interior; in 1906, he was involved in embezzlementand profiteering in connection with grain consignments for the famine-strickenareas. The contractor for this grain was the swindlerand profiteer Lidval. p. 251John—the Menshevik P. P. Maslov. p. 258Vendée—a department in Western France where, during theFrench bourgeois revolution in the late eighteenth century, a