LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
power only in alliance with the peasantry. For this
period he put forward the slogan: Dictatorship of
the proletariat in reliance upon the peasantry. Only
a Party like the Bolshevik Party could carry out
this dictatorship. But to achieve it the Russian
Communist Party had to link up closely with the
peasantry and prove to it that only in alliance with
the working class through the proletarian revolution
 could the peasant, once and for all, throw the
landlord from his back. By this means, the Party
is able to win a reliable ally in the fight to establish
and consolidate the proletarian dictatorship. Lenin
and the Bolshevik Party devoted considerable attention
 to this. Organizationally, the Party strengthened
 its influence in the villages by establishing
Communist nuclei among the peasantry and among
the Red Army men in the Red Army, the majority
of whom are peasants temporarily removed from
the land, and by means of Communist fractions in
non-Party peasant organizations and various organs
like the Soviets, Peasant Mutual Aid Committees,
cooperative societies, in which the peasants are
organized.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is exercised
through the Soviet government of workers and
peasants the general guidance of which is in the
hands of the Party, exercised through the various
Communist fractions.
In the last years of his life, being absorbed entirely
 in the general political leadership of the Party
and the Soviet government, Comrade Lenin was
able to devote little attention to the special question

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