Title: A VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN LANDOWNERS AND PEASANTS ?

Author:LENIN VLADIMIR ILYCH
Subject:SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS
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Vladimir Lenin
A Voluntary Agreement Between
Landowners And Peasants?



Written: April 14 (27), 1917
First Published: April 15, 1917 Pravda No. 33
Online Version: Lenin Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1999




Here is the text of the telegram from Minister Shingaryov, mentioned in
yesterday's editorial of our paper, and printed in today's Dyen:
'On acquainting myself with the decision of the Ranenburg Committee relating to
the grain sowing, I deem it my duty to declare that an independent solution of
the land question in the absence of a general state law is inadmissible.
Arbitrary action will lead to a national calamity and will jeopardies the cause
of freedom by provoking discord. The lawful solution of the land question is the
business of the Constituent Assembly. At the present time agricultural
conciliation chambers will beset up in each local area under the rural supply
committees for the purpose of effecting voluntary agreements between the tillers
of the land and the landowners. The question of leaseholds on vacant lands is
also being urgently considered. For the sake of general order I request that
everybody be guided by the decisions of the Provisional Government and refrain
from establishing self-made laws.'
Can you call it 'democracy', 'people's freedom', when the peasants, who clearly
constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, have no right to adopt
and carry out their own decision, but must wait for a 'voluntary agreement'
between the tillers of the land and the landowners?
One landowner having two thousand dessiatines of land - and three hundred
peasant families having two thousand dessiatines. That, on the average, is how
things stand in Russia. Three hundred peasants must wait for the 'voluntary'
consent of one landowner!
Is this right, comrade soldiers?





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