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In the first weeks after the February revolution the villages countryside had been stripped of Ene younger scherations Lor soc cause of the imperialist war.
Only the aged, the infirm and the young remained. As the soldiers deserted the trenches and hurried home, reports arrived in the cities of disturbances in the provinces.
From Novgorod came reports of unwarranted arrests'; from Tamboy 'attacks on estates'; in Simbirsk "landlords imprisoned': in Kazam sensible people are terrorised', The response of the landlords was to sell their property and quit while the going was good. They certainly had no desire to do the Spring sowing, The peasants called on the Govland mies.
The first Provisional Government, with the Kadet Shingarev. L manic or none, pro posed the establishment of land Russia in 1917 was overwhelmingly a peasant country. The land question, and the urgency of agrarian reform, became issues that every class and party had to peasants themselves creasingly began to settle the Issues of who owned the committees. The Lvov government had no wish to she these committees giving the land to the peasants. In fact on 20 March the Prime Minister urged the land lords to join these bodies.
In the tex two months the Kadet Prince made insistent ap peals that in the violence and robbery be put down and that taken agains and in certain cases even anarchistic actions'. Sukhanow, the Menshevik and Soviet leader. added his weight: *It would be dangerous to force the agrarian problem in the bext few weeks, and moreover there is not the sightest need of Aniong the peasantry the Soclal Revolutionary Party dominatrenis peasant sociast pure hnd been formed at the turn of the ceotury and reflecting the waverings of its supporters began to show sigrs of splitting in 1917.
At the start of May the all-Russian congress of peasants met for a month in Petrograd. The Social Revolutionaries held a inThe congress passed a molio calling for the land to be hande to the peasantry. Unfortunatel the leaders of the Social Revo lutionary Party had no intention to see the decision implemented with any speed. In Yelnin the land committees seized the land.
In 16 of the 17 districe com mittees in this region the provincial commissar took the deci countryside sion to prosecute the land committees for takine the land. To decisive mea commissar in question, Efimon 'unlawful was a member of the Soci Revolutionary Party trang to posal confe Chernor, the SR Minister Agriculture in the coalition gov halt land sales. At the same tim Pereverzey, Minister of Justic sympathetic to the views of the Social Revolutionaries, made clear that no such decree woul be tolerated. knew nothing of the actions of its left band.
In Orel the local land committee seized the londs" meadows and cut the grass, The local SH protested, Their protests did not zures, The agrariar the Provisional bances occurred in the land peasants, of prepared a decree to violent action side of the Left Social Lenin Peasant car acon or the The right hand develop you Tbe Sis finally made a clean breast of their position when at their national congress in June the Constituent Assembly • movement was state tbat in March land disturin April 174, May 236 and June The ruling class having ori ginally encouraged some limited grarian reform, froze in borro he fuse they had helped to high threatened to blow up in their No effort was spared to stall seizures. In the first months of the revolution under the influence of the right SRs peacefully tried to push forward the agrarian reform. In the months that followed their frustration led them to and over to Revolutionaries and the Bolsheviks.
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If you wait until the law i written, and do not yourselves energy, will get neither law nor OVER one hundred delegates representing 30 colleges Bernadatte MocAlisk olidarity with the iris The conference, nic, was called by the Student Movement Campalan on Ireland. agende: Introductions and wad *he Sument erate of the word Revolutionary strategy Ir Reading list from local branch oder Tom the Five explaining the need to build haid last Saturday, In Middlesar PolytechNational Commilies. Sat/Sun 11/12 about Prays Organisers Agare
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