“The proletarian state must effect the transition to collective farming with extreme caution and only very gradually, by the force of example, without any coercion of the middle peasant.”

— Vladimir Lenin

Collected Works, Vol. 31, pp. 152–64.
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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