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RUSSIA - MISCELLANEOUS 



Finally, in the last group, is included readjustment of nadiel holdings 

 to be carried out in favour of the peasants of this or that rural commune. 



As the figures in the following table show, in 1907-08, all these groups 

 assumed a greater importance than could have been foreseen, when the 

 tenacious vitality' of the mir and the conservative spirit of the Russian 

 peasant are considered. 



Table VII. — Individual Farm Readjustment carried 

 out by the Land Commissions. 



In Course of Preparation 



Number of 



House- 

 holds 



Deciatines 



Carried Out 



Number of 



House- 

 holds 



Area 



in 



Deciatines 



Approved by the Peaaanta 



House- 

 holds 



Area 



Deciatines 



1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 191 1 

 1912 



895 

 2,330 

 6.959 

 8,932 

 8,128 



20,990 



64,914 



170,646 



217,766 



220,380 



272,707 



637-904 

 1,685,887 

 2,254,761 

 2,296,073 



657 



1,886 



4.931 

 7.196 

 7,834 



14,088 



55.918 



140,286 



197.383 

 220,936 

 234,816 



88.942 

 436,522 



1,222,444 



1.459,389 

 2,050,873 



(I) 



(i) Ste note on pi^e 135. 



As appears from this table, the work of individual farm readjustment 

 carried out in the last six years affected 7,000 000 deciatines, or more than 

 70,000 sq. kms., an area three times that of all the cultivated land of 

 Denmark, where similar work required a whole generation for its completion. 



But to appreciate at its just value this powerful movement of agri- 

 cultural reform as well as its consequences, we must consider more nearly 

 the methods of procedure adopted by the land commissions in their work 

 of readjustment and allotment. 



The applications of the peasants for the execution of the work must 

 be addressed to the local commission of the district. In the course of the 

 period under consideration (1907-12), applications of the kind were received 

 from 100,000 rural communes, including 1,500,000 peasants' households 

 (representing an agricultural population of about 8,000,000 souls). 



The local commission entrusts the matter to one of its members, 

 or to a surveyor who goes to the village to study the situation in all its 

 features on the spot. This confidential agent of the commission must 

 especially study the most scientific method of farm readjustment from 



