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 revolu- 
tion 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 atten- 
tion to this. Organizationally, the Party strength- 
ened 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 entire- 
ly 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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