Ten Days That Shook the World · Chapter
The Land and Deserters explained
This chapter discusses how the end of the war and the demobilization of the army automatically resolved the issue of deserters and their rights to land, as the problem ceased to exist with the cessation of hostilities.
What happens
This chapter discusses how the end of the war and the demobilization of the army automatically resolved the issue of deserters and their rights to land, as the problem ceased to exist with the cessation of hostilities.
Themes in this chapter
Peasant Question and Land Reform
The chapter touches on the rights of deserters to land, highlighting the centrality of land reform to the peasantry and the revolutionary process.
Key passages
“The Government was not forced to make any decision concerning the rights of deserters to the land. The end of the war and the demobilisation of the army automatically removed the deserter problem.”
The government did not have to decide on land rights for deserters because the war's end and army demobilization made the issue irrelevant.
This passage underscores how the cessation of war resolved a potentially contentious issue without direct government action.