Prince Lvov,
Premier of the Coalition Government, finds it necessary to denounce the crimes
of the peasants. The “crimes” had been going on, increasingly, since April, in
part because the government had done little or nothing about land reform except
to form land committees in rural districts. The committees were permitted to
discuss the matter but not given official power to do anything about it.
So some peasants
had been taking matters into their own hands, confiscating the lands and weapons of the rural nobility, seizing animals and equipment, etc. They even
disrupted land surveys in order to prevent sales of land by the owning classes.
In many cases, revolutionized peasant-soldiers on leave led these efforts.
A supplementary
post follows this one in the chronological order.
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