Date: 1907-08-14
Source: ru:PSS/v47

Source: PSS vol 47

Not “peasant proletarians,” but “democratic peasantry.”

In a social (socialist) revolution, we can count only on the proletariat of the cities and the proletariat of the countryside. But what we have in Russia today is not a social revolution—rather, it is a bourgeois revolution. Only the proletariat, together with the peasants, together with the democratic peasantry, together with the broad masses of the peasantry, can bring such a revolution to victory.

Yours, N. Lenin

P.S. I received your letter very late. I have only a few minutes left.

Please excuse my writing in such haste.

(Finland) to St. Petersburg

First published from the manuscript

Translated from French

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