ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the internal situation of the State, and with the policy of the Central Committee in matters connected with the internal situation. The constructive work has to be carried on in a world which, outside Russia, is still capitalist. This means that the development of economic life and socialist construction takes place amid the antagonisms, amid the clashes, between our economic system and the capitalist system. Meanwhile the revolution in France, or Germany, or both, must maintain in Soviet Russia that minimum of independence in economic life which is essential as a safeguard against the economic subordination of Soviet Russia to the system of world capitalism. Soviet Russia remains a predominantly agricultural country. The products of agriculture greatly exceed the products of industry. The development of the economy of the country has led to an improvement in material conditions, especially in those of the working class. The chapter explains Lenin's slogans on the peasant problem.
