Land-improvement work is the most important of all the public work which the Soviet Power has to organise. It is, moreover, preeminently work in which we can make a good use of all the parasitic strata of society.
LAND SETTLEMENTS. The point has been omitted from our program, but it is necessary to consider it here, for the Soviet Power will be compelled sooner or later to give practical attention to the policy of land settlement.
Notwithstanding the redistribution of the landlord’ estates, land-hunger is already manifest in a number of provinces. In outlying regions, on the other hand, there are huge areas of unoccupied land. Migration from the centre to the outskirts will be indispensable in the near future. It will be incumbent upon the proletarian State to ensure that the migrants to the newly settled districts shall not devote themselves to small-scale agriculture upon separate patches of land. We must see to it that everything is made ready for the newcomers, everything requisite for large-scale