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