GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE NEW RUSSIAN LAND REFORMS 



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The following table shows the increase of the area on which this work 

 was carried out during the five years 1905-11. 



Table V. — Collective Readjustment carried out by the Land Commissions. 



(i) Acnording to the new law of May 29th., 1911, it is for the Senate to give 6nal approval; that is 

 why the above headings are not found in later statistical tables. 



The above return shows that the work of farm readjustment of this 

 class in course of execution already at the end of the sixth year affected 

 6,000,000 hectares and the work completed 5,000,000 hectares, or 50,000 

 sq. kms., that is an area equal to that farmed in the whole of Bavaria. 



As has been said, this work was for the most part undertaken to get 

 rid of enclaves or other inconveniences in the distribution of farms between 

 rural communes, and it had necessaril3'- to precede the readjustment to 

 be made within the commime (for the various peasants' households form- 

 ing part of it) . The specification of the work as given in the following table 

 shows that it was really in this way the farm readjustment was regarded. 



