I think this is half-right. The Bolsheviks found their support not from peasants but from first-generation workers (ex-peasants).
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
The
> latter was the domain of left wing intellectuals and
> radicalized peasantry - for the most part.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk