Part III: Credit 



RUSSIA. 



THE ACTIVITY OF tTHE PEASANTS' LAND BANK. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCES: 



OTHeTBi KpeCTbaHCKaro seMejibHaro 6aHKa {Reports of the Peasants' Land Bank). 

 Petrograd, 1907-1915. 



J^^HTeJibHOCTb KpecTtHHCKaro seMeJibHaro 6aHKa {Activity of the Peasants' Land 

 Bank) Resumed reports published annually in the weekly official re\dew of the Ministry 

 of Finances " B'fecTHHK'b (J^HHaHCOBrb, npoMbimjieHHOCTH h ToproBJiH ". Pe- 

 trograd, 1 907-1 91 6. 



O noKynKii KpecTtJiHCKHM-b seMeji&HMMt SaHKOM-B jiHKBH^HpyeMBixi> seMejib 

 HenpiaxeJibCKHXt noaaHHbixij h BbixOflnieB'i. {Pm chase by the Peasants' Land 

 Bank of lands belonging to subjects of enemy countries and banished persons), in th;j review 

 " B'fecTHHK's (|)iiHaHCOBi>, npoMbiniJieHHOCTn h ToproBJiH ". {Messenger of Fi- 

 nances, Industry and Commerce), No. 27. Petrograd, 1916. 



OTHER SOURCES: 



XtBHacenie seMeJiBiiaro aanaca KpecTBancKaro 6aHKa {The Transference of Lands be- 

 longing to the Bank of the Agriculttirisis) in the review SeMJieA'^JitHecKaa FaseTa 

 (The Journal of Agriculture), No. 31, 1916. 



1,\ Banque Imperiale fonciere des paysans {The Peasants' Imperial Land Bank). Chambre 

 de Commerce russe de Paris, 191 3. 



The year 1915 virtually ended the third and most important period of 

 the activity of the Peasants' Land Bank. In view of the diminution of its 

 activity, which as a consequence of the war was much and increasingly em- 

 phasized, its operations in igi6 could not in any way influence the results 

 of this third period ; and in 1917 landed property was, as is known, forbid- 

 den by the government to change lands by way either of sales or of gifts. 

 The bank's operations in the matter of selling land to peasants were there- 

 fore interrupted if not suppressed. Moreover, in accordance with the de- 

 clarations of the government, this bank and the Bank of the Nobility 

 were transformed into a single land bank, open no longer to citizens of cer- 



