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From the first
this problem had to be faced by the Bolshevik government. We find Lenine
insisting that the workers must be inspired with "idealism, self-sacrifice,
and persistence" to turn out as large a product as possible; that the
productivity of labor must be raised and a high level of industrial
performance as the duty of every worker be rigorously insisted upon. It is
not enough to have destroyed feudalism and the monarchy:
In every Socialist revolution, however, the main task of the
proletariat, and of the poorest peasantry led by it--and, hence,
also in the Socialist revolution in Russia inaugurated by us on
November 7, 1917, consists in the positive and constructive work
of establishing an extremely complex and delicate net of newly
organized relationships covering the systematic production and
distribution of products which are necessary for the existence of
tens of millions of people. The successful realization of such a
revolution depends on the original historical creative work of the
majority of the population, and first of all of the majority of
the toilers. _The victory of the Socialist revolution will not be
assured unless the proletariat and the poorest peasantry manifest
sufficient consciousness, idealism, self-sacrifice, and
persistence.
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