, 1921-1991 🇷🇺 Communist Russia
View of/attitude towards peasants
| Political Left | Why? | So? |
|---|---|---|
| Negative | Peasants refused to share their food during War Communism; the state had to send soldiers to requisition the food. | They believed that harsh discipline was needed; preferred the stick to the carrot. |
| Somewhat positive | Treated peasants kinder, believed in carrot over stick. |
- Stalin was initially in the centre
- he would later shift to the right’s attitudes of peasants, then abandon them as he manipulated the left against the right to get what he wanted ^e60326