<DIV>CB: If there hadn't been mass peasant support for the Russian <BR>Revolution ,<BR>it would have failed. The Leninists succeeded in winning peasant <BR>support in<BR>practice, Marx's test of theory.<BR>--</DIV>
<DIV>As far as I know, they didn't win their support for socialism, though. The peasants wanted the Bolsheviks to partition the black earth land to them, the same thing they'd been expecting the tsars to do for decades. (I'm not an expert, but that's my impression.)</DIV><p>
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