Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal. Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri, Vol. II. Türk İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü, 1959, p. 112.
There had been a Chinese Revolution in 1911, but although there were changes at the seat of government and in urban areas, the rural areas where most of the people lived changed little if at all. The revolution failed as a result of it became a revolution without reform.
Vladimir Lenin. The “war-time” referred to the Civil War in Russia which broke out after the 1917 Revolution where the Whites and the Reds fought for control of Russia.
Official `Russian Communist Party Publication. There was no way that the farming peasants could get money for their crops. They had to turn over most to the government to feed the cities. But without money, the peasants could not get the goods manufactured in the cities and there was little motivation for the peasants to farm.
The Southern system of tenant farming and sharecropping left the poor of the South with little better eoonomicly than the Russian peasants of the late 19th century.
Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrial nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.
