ROUMANIA. 



THE LAND REFORJM AND ITS REvSULTS UP TO THE PRESENT. 



UNOFFICIAIv SOURCES: 



RosETTi (Radu) Acte §; legiuiri privitoarela chestia ■^arS.neasca. (Laws relating to the Peasant 



Question). Vol. I: I/Cgile de tocmeli agricole (Laws on Agricultural Co7itracts) "Progresul" 



Press Ploe§ti, 1907. 

 Teodoresco (G.) : I,es Contra ts AgricolesenRouinanie (/l^ncw/^wyaZ Contracts in Routnania). 



Paris, Jouve and Cie. 1912. 

 Creanga (Dr. G. D.) : Grundebesitzverteilung und Bauemfrage in Rumanien (Subdivision 



of Landed Property and the Rural Question in Routnania) lycipzig. Duncker and Humblot, 



1909. 



Casa rural.a. Dare de seania pe 1912 (The Rural Bank. Report for the Year 1912) in Jurnalul 

 Societafei Centrale Agricole, April ist. and 15th, 1913. nos. 7 and 8. 



Caisse Rurale, Situation des operations au soseptcmbre 1913, comparativement au 30 sep- 

 tembre 1912. (Rural Bank. Business Situation on September ^oth., 191 3, compared with 

 that on September 30^/1., 1912). From " I<e Mouvement Econoni:que " of January ist., 

 1914. Vol. XIX, no. £10. Bucharest. 



JONESCU (Dr. D.): Die Agrarverfassung Rumaniens, ihre Geschiclite und ihre Reform (Agricul- 

 tural Organization in Roumania, its History and its Reform). I^eipzig, Duncker and 

 Humblot, 1909. 



Rezultatele reformelor AGR.ARE dIn 1907 (The Results of the Land Reform of 1907). In the 

 Revista Economicd ^i Financiard, October 24th. - November 6th., 1913. no. 460. 



CoG.ALNiCEANXT (V. M.) : Die Agrarfrage in Rumanien seit dem Bauernaufstand vom Marz 

 1907 (The Land Question in Roumania since the Peasants' Revolt in March, 1907). In 

 the Archiv fiir Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, May and July, 1911. 



§ I. The AGRICULTURAL, SITUATION PREVIOUS TO I907. 



As we know, the insurrectional movements among the Rotimanian 

 peasants were only the violent epilogue to an unhappy situation which had 

 lasted for years without the Government, which alone could have prevented 

 disaster by efficient and legitimate intervention, feeling itself strong 

 enough and in a position to put an end to a situation at once so dangerous 

 and so unjust. 



We do not intend to go too far back into the history of the conditions 

 under which the peasantry of the Moldo-Walachian Principality had to Hve, 



