Decree on Land

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The Decree on Land was a landmark Bolshevik policy issued after the Russian Revolution that abolished private landownership and redistributed land to the peasantry.

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Decree on Land canonical 5

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bolshevik policy
Soviet land reform measure
legal decree
abolished church landownership
imperial family landownership
landlord property rights
monastic landownership
noble estates
private ownership of land
aimedAt gaining peasant support for Soviet power
redistribution of land to the peasantry
appliesToTerritory Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
basedOn agrarian programs of Socialist-Revolutionaries
peasant land mandates
beneficiary Russian peasantry
country Russia
dateAdopted 26 October 1917
8 November 1917
followsCalendar Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: New Style (Gregorian calendar)

Old Style (Julian calendar)
headOfGovernmentAtTime Vladimir Lenin
historicalPeriod early Soviet period
implementedBy Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People’s Commissars

Soviet government
influenced collectivization policies in the USSR
subsequent Soviet land codes
issuedBy Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
language Russian
legalForm decree of the Soviet government
legalStatus foundational act of Soviet agrarian policy
opposedBy conservative political forces
landowners
nobility
politicalFaction Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks
proposedBy Vladimir Lenin
providedFor confiscation of landed estates without compensation
equalization of land use among peasants
nationalization of land
prohibition of hired labor in agriculture
prohibition of land lease
prohibition of land sale
transfer of land to peasant use
relatedTo Decree on Peace
Russian Revolution
surface form: October Revolution

Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917
subjectMatter agrarian reform
land tenure
property rights

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Description of subject: The Decree on Land was a landmark Bolshevik policy issued after the Russian Revolution that abolished private landownership and redistributed land to the peasantry.

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