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161 imminent prospect of war were to be maintained, it was necessary to insist on the peasants disgorging their supplies; and this meant rapid and enforced collectivization۔In December 1927, therefore a month after the visits of the Nehru's the Party congress decided on an offensive against the ruler, opening a new chapter in Soviet history۔- So Jawaharlal saw the Soviet Union in the last days of its first, falcyon period۔If his reaction was idealistic, it was partly because there was still some idealism in the air۔The grounding in Marxism, which he had received at the Brussels conference and after, was followed by a near- conversion to communism by practical testimony۔Jawaharlal had been particularly impressed by Lenin's leadership, by his realism and resilience, and above all by his insistence on professional, full-time revolutionaries۔The need for such workers in India was obviously even greater, and it was as one such that Jawaharlal now doubtless saw himself۔He who had sailed from India as a dedicated disciple of Gandhi returned a self-conscious revolutionary radical۔Although always to be deeply influenced by Gandhi, he was never again to be wholly a prisoner in the Gandhian mould۔But it is significant that the change was wrought not be the revolutionary situation in India but by what he was and heard and read in Europe۔Jawaharlal was always a radical in the European tradition, seeking to apply and adapt its doctrine to his own country۔This could be both a strength and a weakness۔"4