Demands for Land Flashcards
When did the PG want to leave the issue of land distribution until?
After elections
What did the failure of the PG to act on this demand for land distribution lead to?
The peasants becoming resentful towards the authorities
What did the peasants start doing after February 1917?
Taking land from landowners’ estates for themselves to divide amongst them
Why did land seizures encourage many peasants to desert from the army?
They were afraid they would miss out
The peasants were prepared to support the PG so long as it did what?
Appeared to be actively promoting a wholesale transfer of land to them
Why did the peasants turn to direct action?
The PG did nothing to promote a wholesale transfer of land to them
What did the PG set up that ironically helped the peasants instigate the land seizures?
Local land committees
Why did the PG set up local land committees?
To carry out a land survey and prepare for ultimate land reform
Why could the operation to carry out a land survey and prepare for ultimate land reform be impossible to carry out?
Millions of peasant-soldiers were far from the village at the front
Who were the local land committees dominated by which led to direct land seizures?
Peasants
How would the peasants gather before forcibly taking land?
In their mir assembly or the facade of local land committees
Due to the land seizures, what inevitably opened up between the peasants and the PG?
A gulf of mistrust
