Ten Days That Shook the World · Concept
Peasant Question and Land Reform
The narrative highlights the critical role of the peasantry, who constituted the majority of Russia's population, and the Bolsheviks' efforts to win their support through land decrees, peasant congresses, and emissaries, despite initial political backwardness.
The narrative highlights the critical role of the peasantry, who constituted the majority of Russia's population, and the Bolsheviks' efforts to win their support through land decrees, peasant congresses, and emissaries, despite initial political backwardness.
Peasants seized land and burned manor houses, frustrated by the government's failure to implement land reform, while Land Committees were jailed.
Passage of the Land Decree and debates over deserters' land rights reflect the centrality of peasant issues.
The central issue of the Congress: the Land decree and its implementation, with debates over confiscation and distribution.
Lenin cites the peasant uprising in Tambov Government and the forced release of hoarded grain as evidence of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry.
