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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: particularly clear expression of the peasants' disbelief in our
ability to draw up a proper economic plan. This belief is
clearly at the bottom of such questions as, 'Comrade Gusev,
have you ever done any plowing?' or 'Comrade Orator, do
you know anything about peasant work?' Disbelief in the
townsman who understands nothing about peasants is
natural to the peasant, and we shall have to conquer it, to get
through it, to get rid of it by showing the peasant, with
a clear plan in our hands that he can understand, that we are
not altogether fools in this matter and that we understand
more than he does." He then sets out the argument which he
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