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On the Unauthorised Seizure of Land

Auhtor: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Language: english
Published: 1906

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political,  revolutionary,  social history
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Review by Michael Gallagher, February 2006


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Summary of the Book 'On the Unauthorised Seizure of Land':

Before he became the general of the revolution Lenin was its pedant the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics. His theories of what society ought to be and how that ideal must be achieved were the products of thousands of hours spent reading. The incomprehensibility of Lenin is precisely this all-consuming intellectuality--the fact that from his calculations from his neat pen flowed seas of blood whereas by nature this was not an evil person writes Andrei Sinyavsky one of the key dissidents of the 1960s. On the contrary Vladimir Ilyich was a rather kind person whose cruelty was stipulated by science and incontrovertible historical laws. As were his love of power and his political intolerance.

Excerpts from the Book 'On the Unauthorised Seizure of Land':


... OF LAND FLIMSY ARGUMENTS OF THE SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONARIES ? Pravda No. 62, June 2 (May 20), 1917 Signed: N. Lenin Published according to ...
... seizure of lands belonging to the local landowners. The question arises: is such a procedure advisable?     S. Maslov considers ...
... it in an unorganised way at that - as private property. Take it, share it - and that's that.     That would indeed be the height ...
... That is the crux of the matter. It is on this question that S. Maslov is beating about the bush.     The landed estates must be confiscated ...
... distribution of lands in the various regions got to do with this? Obviously, nothing whatever. Pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly this ...
...   And the real issue is that of the landed estates. The landowners are for keeping them. We are for handing them over immediately to the peasants ...
... the land in the hope that if they manage to raise a crop on it they will be able to keep it. But this can be done only by such peasant households ...
... lease land on a par with large families?     The difference between our Party, the Bolsheviks, and Maslov on this point is that he proposes ...
... (there are more poor than rich). This is what we propose     2. A special organisation of poor peasants, where they can specially discuss ...
...   This argument concerns the immediate division of the land as private property. No one has proposed any such thing. S. Maslov is wide ...
... seeds or leaving their own land uncultivated. Now that the country is so badly in need of food such a situation is absolutely intolerable. ...
... what I have said I feel that some of you are ready to protest, saying, how can we be told to leave things as they were when we have suffered so much ...
... Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). - DJR] NOTES ? [115] Izvestia of the All-Russia Soviet ...
... of the Stolypin and the Narodnik Agrarian ProgrammesVladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 21 January 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, ...
... state. As a theorist, his... >>read more<... movement had developed in Russia during the last decade of the nineteenth century. It was a response to the rapid growth of industry, cities, and ...
... Ilyich Lenin : A Fly in the OintmentReturning to Russia on April 3, Lenin arrived in Petrograd during the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik ...
... became... >>read more<... drama-the tragedy-of our era, the rise of totalitarian states. A bookish man with a scholar's habits and a general's tactical instincts, Lenin introduced ...
... of 1917 was of medium height, quite bald, except for the back of his head, with a reddish beard. The features of his face were strikingslanted eyes that ...