And so we arrive at the following conclusions: 1) The chief defect of Party work in the countryside is the absence of a wide, non-Party peasant active between the Party and the tens of millions of non-Party peasants.

2) The Party’s immediate task is to create such an active around the Party in the countryside to serve as a source from which the Party could recruit new forces. 3) Such an active can be created only by revitalising the Soviets and by drawing the peasants into the work of governing the country.

4) To revitalise the Soviets a radical change must be made in our approach to the non-Party peasants; there must be no domineering, and an atmosphere of mutual confidence must be created between Party and non-Party people.

Such are the Party’s tasks.