Frunze. 1969. 723 pages. The print run is 1000. Price 2 rubles. 21 kopecks. The reviewed monograph by V. P. Sherstobitov is devoted to the generalizing theme of the great transformative influence of Lenin's ideas on the fate of the peasantry of the Soviet East. The author continues and develops in it the provisions set out in his previous book1, and at the same time introduces a lot of new things to the coverage of the experience of socialist construction in the village, Kyshtak and the resettlement village of Kyrgyzstan. The coverage of these issues is of serious scientific importance, since the experience of socio-cultural development of the national peasantry of the Central Asian republics based on Lenin's doctrine of the possibility of transition to socialism, bypassing capitalism, in its main features had much in common, the historical destinies of the peasantry coincided, and the methods of transformation were of the same type or similar in character2 . The book opens with a description of Lenin's views on the peasantry as a class in general, on the national peasantry of the eastern suburbs of the Russian Empire in particular, on the agrarian question and ways to resolve it in Central Asia; Lenin's provisions on the leading role of the working class in eliminating the colonial legacy in land relations and remaking the pre-capitalist structure that prevailed in the national village of the Soviet Union are presented. For example, on the union of the entire Russian working class (let us emphasize this) with the national working peasantry in the transition period to socialism. The author examines in detail the differences in the forms of the union of workers and peasants (using the example of Kyrgyzstan) during the periods of war communism and the new economic policy, especially on the verge of transition from one stage to another. He puts forward the most interesting problem of V. I. Lenin's formulation of the question of the continuity of socio-cultural transfor ... Читать далее