Abstract
As has been argued in previous chapters, the Russian peasantry does not form a given and unproblematic object for the theoretical and political ruminations of Social Democracy. In this chapter the emphasis is shifted from the writings of leading Social Democrats to the ‘Agrarian Question’ as it was constituted in state policy from the Stolypin reforms to Collectivisation. It may seem curious to unite in this way a series of measures introduced by, on the one hand, Tsarist autocracy, and on the other the first workers’ and peasants’ state, without at the same time subscribing to the fallacious notion that there is some essential and intransigent unity to agriculture and the peasantry. The intention here however is to examine the policy objectives and instruments, the exercise of which constituted diverse categories of the rural population as objects of state administration.
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