Land problem

Cards (4)

  • Peasants wanted govt to give legitimacy to them claiming land back
    • Liberals in PG believed that land distribution should be left to CA and for landowners to be compensated
    • Concern that free for all land distribution would disintegrate the army as peasant soldiers would return to countryside
  • Chernov, popular SR leader and Minister of Agriculture tried to install a radical land policy where peasants would be empowered to use land from private estates,
    but liberals from PG blocked this
  • Peasants still discontented as they were land hungry and felt betrayed by the 1861 Emancipation Decree
    • wanted govt to give them approval of land seizure
  • During Summer of 1917 land seizures increased to 237 cases in July and local SR activists encountered resistance if they tried to restrain them
    • failed to understand that peasants couldn't wait for land redistribution