{"product_id":"2026200013684-secondhand-to-the-rural-poor","title":"To The Rural Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten at a pivotal moment in Russian revolutionary history, To the Rural Poor is Lenin's passionate and systematic appeal to the peasant masses, urging them to recognise their common cause with the urban proletariat in the struggle against tsarist autocracy and capitalist exploitation. First composed in 1903, this pamphlet argues with forceful clarity that the rural poor — landless labourers and smallholding peasants — are natural allies of the working class, and that only through organised political action and the overthrow of the existing order can they achieve genuine liberation from poverty, debt, and landlord oppression.\n\nLenin's prose here is deliberately accessible, stripped of academic obscurantism in favour of a direct, instructional voice aimed at readers with little formal education — yet the ideological architecture beneath is meticulous and unyielding. The pamphlet stands as a landmark document in the history of Marxist agitation, illustrating the Bolshevik strategy of building a revolutionary coalition across class lines in the countryside. Published by Progress Publishers, this edition makes a foundational text of revolutionary thought available to a global readership, leaving the reader to consider how its arguments about land, labour, and power continue to echo in agrarian societies to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160924496091,"sku":"2026200013684-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1c429d32-fa15-4338-9ea6-b966f27edab5.png?v=1787188416","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013684-secondhand-to-the-rural-poor","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}