THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - LAND REDISTRIBUTION

Question 1

LAND REDISTRIBUTION:

• LAND REFORMS
• Important to the Bolsheviks
• Offering land…
• In Sovnarkom…

Answer 1

• “Peace, Bread, Land” - Became the platform for his popularity… (Lenin)
• Offering them land that the Provisional Government had failed to do.
• Bolsheviks: Legitimized this by issuing a decree from the Second All Russian Congress of Soviets
• In Sovnarkom: Bolsheviks were passing decrees on Peace and LAND (November 1917). They were legalizing their illegal actions

Question 2

LAND REDISTRIBUTION:

STATE COLLECTIVE FARMS

• Gave land control
• State Collective Farming
• Collectivization

Answer 2

• Gave land control to the peasants
• SCF: Better than what existed before
• Collectivization of land to ensure that urban workers had enough food to eat to ensure that the factories could be kept WORKING

Question 3

LAND REDISTRIBUTION:

LAND DECREE (1917)

• November 1917
• No provate ownership
• Not be sold, leased or mortgaged

Answer 3

• November 1917: The Bolsheviks issued a land decree
• There could be NO private ownership of land
• Land could NOT be sold, leased or mortgaged