Peasant Rights Quotes
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.
Despite his speeches like this one, he was a ruthless dictator who then before his death in 2000 handed power to his son.
Vladimir Lenin. See {640096} and {640094} for more on the Communist struggle with the Russian Peasants.
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.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State.
He was a left wing nationalist whose policies were counter to the interests of the United Fruit Company and other American businesses. His plan to build another canal connecting Atlantic and Pacific Oceans threatened to take business and control from the Panama Canal which at that point America owned. The CIA covertly engineered a right wing coup ousting him. At the time, it was US foreign policy to try and change any regime that was not acceptable to American Business interests in Latin America or was socialistic or both
