Most Russian peasants in the mid-1920s held their land as members of a commune (or mir), the old Russian form of land-holding. The revolution had brought a revival in the fortunes of the institution. This was not a welcome development to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government unsuccessfully attempted to supplant the commune as the focus of rural affairs, by instituting the rural Soviets. The debate on land-holding in the mid-twenties bore fruit only in encouraging peasants to modify the worst inefficiencies of strip farming.
| ISBN: | 9780521078849 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 1971 |
| Author: | Donald John Male |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 253 pages |
| Series: | Soviet and East European Studies |
| Genres: |
General and world history |