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Lenin tried to help the peasants because he wanted there to be one class. he wanted to get rid of the class system (low class, middle class, higher class) he just wanted everyone be equal and as 1 to enhance patriotism because all the Russians are in unity, they are all 1 class, and the same class. everyone paid the same amount for taxes, everyone got paid the same no matter your job...
Other view:
First, Lenin did not try to help the peasants. Under his "war communism" program, peasant farmers were forced to sell their crops to the state at artificially low prices or simply taken away whether or not they were left with enough to live on. In fact this policy cause a great famine in which many many people in the country died.
Second as to some statements above:
Lenin never eliminated class distinction. He just treated everyone about the same: abysmally. Peasant farmers who owned a little land or livestock were persecuted. People did not pay the same amount of taxes and everyone did not get paid the same as everyone else no matter what the job.
At that time the Russians were not in unity. This can be proved by the fact that the Russian Civil War broke out after Lenin took over the government. After that there were hundreds of small revolts all over the country against what Lenin was doing. These were harshly suppressed.
There was no uniform tax amount and there were differences in income. The only way everyone could have been paid exactly the same amount as everyone else was if the state had decreed a salary amount by law. No such law was ever passed.
What else can I help you with?
What was Vladimir Lenin's wartime agricultural policy?
to outlaw the ownership of land
What was the essential question that Lenin had regarding the peasantry in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution?
Lenin and other Marxists paid more attention to the peasantry and agriculture prior to 1917 than is generally noted. Lenin studied the role of the peasants under the Tsarist regime along with how it would function after the revolution the Bolsheviks would create. As with all stages of class struggle, Lenin was sure that capitalism would shape the agriculture in Russia. This would be a natural stage to help set up the inevitable "workers' revolution". The belief in the inevitability of capitalist development in agriculture and with the peasants was essential to the Bolshevik analysis of the peasant problem. The only unanswered question for Lenin prior to the revolution was what type of agrarian capitalism would develop in Russia. It is interesting to noter that Lenin was sure about capitalism and the workers, but that the peasantry was problematical. Marx was never clear on this in that the "peasants" of England and Germany were not a factor in his visions about the workers' rebellions.
Why did Lenin appeal to the people of Russia?
Lenin famously said "Peace, Land, And Bread" because it was the main thing the people wanted. He appealed to the majority of people because he sided with the poor and middle classes which most Russians were at the time, so his idea to help their living standards were very popular.
Did Lenin help or hurt Russia?
Lenin and Communism was a complete diaster for Russia that it is only now recovering from.
What years did Lenin come to power?
Lenin and the Bolsheviks began their rise to power in earnest when Lenin returned to Russia from exile in Switzerland in April 1917 after the February 1917 Revolution which toppled the Tsar. From then on, Lenin and the Bolsheviks worked against the new Provisional Government by promising an end to World War 1, redistribution of land to peasants and an end to shortages of food and manufactured goods. They spread their revolutionary ideas among the soldiers, workers and peasants until they were able to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917 and take over full political governmental power in Russia.
