Question

Which among the following statements are true about Vladimir Lenin?

• A. He felt that the peasants were not one united group.
• B. He wanted a small, strictly disciplined party of full-time members.
• C. He led the ‘majority’ of the party called Mensheviks.
• D. Julius Martov strongly supported Lenin.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B)

The correct options are
A He felt that the peasants were not one united group.
B He wanted a small, strictly disciplined party of full-time members.

Vladimir Lenin felt that the peasants were not one united group - some were rich, some were poor, some worked as labourers, and some were capitalists who employed others to work for them. Lenin wanted a small, tightly organised, a strictly disciplined party of full-time members who did what they were told in a repressive society of Tsarist Russia. In contrast, the other faction of the party favoured a large, loosely organised democratic party. The ‘majority’ of the party were Bolsheviks and was led by Vladimir Lenin and the minority of the party, and the Mensheviks were led by Julius Martov.