Agrarian Experts And Social Justice
Journal: Cahiers du monde russe
Year: 2016

Between 1861 and 1917 a “land allotment mentalité” developed among government officials, public activists and peasants themselves that shaped discussions of land reform in 1917 and the following years, representing a broad consensus on how social justice as it applied to land reform might be judged and measured. Based on the published and archival materials of the Main Land Committee, peasant congress publications, and the Hoover Institution Archive’s Wrangel Collection this article examines dis