PG Problems - Land Redistribution

• With the collapse of the tsarist regime, the peasants' demands for a greater share of the land intensified.

  • Both the PG and the Soviet recognised the peasants' rights to the great landed estates of the former Royal Family.
  • However, many in the PG were landowners who didn't want to lose their own land.
• Redistribution was not practical until the war was over.

  • It would have incited many peasant conscripts in the army to mutiny and return home.
• Peasants in the countryside were not prepared to wait and they began to take matters into their own hands.
• The PG's policy of creating a Land Commission seemed completely inadequate.

  • Bolsheviks who didn't see peasants as revolutionary also failed to have a clear plan.