The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907[1]
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[1] Lenin’s book The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907 was written in November-December 1907. It was included in Part 2, Volume II of the collection of Lenin’s works entitled Twelve Years, which was to have been published in 1908, but the book was seized at the printers by the police and destroyed. Only one copy was saved with several pages at the end of it missing. The book was first published in 1917 under the title, VI. Ilyin (N. Lenin), The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907 (Petrograd, Zhizn i Znaniye Publishers).
The 1917 edition of this book was printed from the mutilated copy, which broke off at the following unfinished sentence: “The reformative path of creating a Junker-bourgeois Russia presupposes the preservation of the foundations of the old system of landownership and their slow”... (See present volume, p. 425.) To this Lenin added the words: “systematic, and most painful coercion of the mass of the peasantry. The revolutionary path of creating a peasant-bourgeois Russia necessarily presupposes the break-up of the old system of landownership, the abolition of the private ownership of the land.”
The present edition is reproduced from the manuscript corrected by Lenin several years after the 1908 edition.