..."The NEP is a way to rally the peasants around the Soviet Power, to help and support the poor and middle peasant...". This quote also shows how Lenin viewed the peasantry as a necessary part of the revolutionary and how an alliance between them and the proletariat was crucial for the revolutions success, a viewpoint which Trotsky also opposed, believing that they were too "backward" and "individualistic" to be able to support the revolution, even though... 4/5