V. I.

Lenin

35

To:   A. L. KOLEGAYEV

30. I. 1918

Comrade Kolegayev, Please help the bearers (the First Russian Society of
Communist Agricultural Workers) with advice and directives as to how and where to obtain land. Their initiative
is excellent; support it in every way. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The First Russian Society of Communist Agricultural Workers
was organised early in 1918 on the initiative of workers at the
Obukhov Factory in Petrograd. Lenin greatly assisted in its
organisation. In March 1918, members of the society with their
families went to Kazakhstan, where they settled and were given land
to cultivate. Civil war prevented the development of the
Petrograd workers’ initiative. The communards failed to reap even
their first harvest. Kulaks and White Cossacks attacked the
commune and broke it up.