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The Contrast Between Modernization and Tradition : Land Ownership During the Last Decades of the Tsarist Empire

The Contrast Between Modernization and Tradition : Land Ownership During the Last Decades of the... 1 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN MODERNIZATION AND TRADI- TION : LAND OWNERSHIP DURING THE LAST DECADES OF THE TSARIST EMPIRE ADRIANO SILVESTRI J.D. University of Trento, Faculty of Law 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Russian Pre-revolutionary Law for Contemporary Reforms s Starting from the middle of the past century, the relationship between man and land has been one of the most controversial fields of both Russian and Soviet law. In retrospect, it can be noted that the models of reforms concerning land ownership constantly vacillated between the two extreme concepts of communal property and private ownership, according to the political intentions ofthose who wielded power. It seems as though Russia has regularly tried to rid itself of its traditional legal concepts based on a sense of community but has never fully succeeded. The reforms carried out by Mikhail Gorbachev mirrored the situation of the last decades of the Russian Empire, when Stolypin and his colleagues tried to replace traditional communal models of landholding and attempted to spread the idea of the individual ownership of arable land. The requests for freedom and for the reallocation of land expressed throughout the former Soviet Union over the last few years have many http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Central and East European Law Brill

The Contrast Between Modernization and Tradition : Land Ownership During the Last Decades of the Tsarist Empire

SILVESTRI, Adriano
Review of Central and East European Law , Volume 19 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1993
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/157303593X00013
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1 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN MODERNIZATION AND TRADI- TION : LAND OWNERSHIP DURING THE LAST DECADES OF THE TSARIST EMPIRE ADRIANO SILVESTRI J.D. University of Trento, Faculty of Law 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Russian Pre-revolutionary Law for Contemporary Reforms s Starting from the middle of the past century, the relationship between man and land has been one of the most controversial fields of both Russian and Soviet law. In retrospect, it can be noted that the models of reforms concerning land ownership constantly vacillated between the two extreme concepts of communal property and private ownership, according to the political intentions ofthose who wielded power. It seems as though Russia has regularly tried to rid itself of its traditional legal concepts based on a sense of community but has never fully succeeded. The reforms carried out by Mikhail Gorbachev mirrored the situation of the last decades of the Russian Empire, when Stolypin and his colleagues tried to replace traditional communal models of landholding and attempted to spread the idea of the individual ownership of arable land. The requests for freedom and for the reallocation of land expressed throughout the former Soviet Union over the last few years have many

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