^[81] In 1918 the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) regularly called meetings of Party activists to discuss the most important questions of current politics. The meeting in question discussed the proletariat's attitude to petty-bourgeois democrats who swung over to the Soviet government in the autumn of 1918. Lenin's report on the question evoked heated debate. In his concluding speech Lenin summed up the results of the debate.    [p. 201]

  ^[82] Engels's article "The Peasant Question in France and Germany" was published in the magazine Die Neue Zeit in November 1894.
    Engels wrote the article after Vollmar, one of the leaders of the Right wing of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany, had made a speech on the agrarian question at the party Congress in Frankfurt in October 1894, in which he distorted Engels's views on the attitude towards small peasants. In his letter to the editors of Vorwärts Engels refuted Vollmar's inventions and added that he was going to write an article in which he would set down and substantiate his views on the agrarian question.
    The Frankfurt Congress appointed a special commission to work out an agrarian programme for the next party congress. The draft programme was discussed at the Breslau Congress in October 1895, after Engels's death. The revisionist draft did not get the required majority of votes and was rejected. The Congress adopted a decision stressing the need for a further study of the laws governing the development of agriculture.    [p. 202]

  ^[83] Frederick Engels, "The Peasant Question in France and Germany" (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1962, Vol. II, p. 435).    [p. 202]

  ^[84] ibid., p. 438.    [p. 202]

  ^[85] ibid.    [p. 214]

  ^[86] Karl Marx, The Civil War in France (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1962, Vol. I, pp. 520-21).    [p. 215]

  ^[87] Frederick Engels, "The Peasant Question in France and Germany" (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1962, Vol. II, p. 433).    [p. 216]

  ^[88] Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955, pp. 469 and 476.    [p. 217]

  ^[89] Lenin refers to the report submitted by the All-Russia Council of the Office Employees' Trade Unions to the Council of People's Commissars and published in the magazine Vestnik Sluzhashchego (Office Employee's Herald ) No. 11-12, 1918. The report pointed to the need to enlist members of the office employees' unions for

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food work conducted by the People's Commissariat of Food in pursuance of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of November 21, 1918, On the Organisation of Supply (see Note 80).

    [Note 80: "The decree On the Organisation of Supply is meant here. The Council of People's Commissars discussed the decree on November 12, 1918, and finally endorsed it on November 21. On November 24 it was published in Izvestia. Lenin directly participated in formulating the decree and introduced several amendments."    [p. 223]