# The Land and Deserters explained — Ten Days That Shook the World

> Chapter companion for Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

## 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 lines

> 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._

## Links

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