Russia's Land Reform Revolution

Russian Parliament approves a historic bill that will allow Russians to buy farmland.

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June 29, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Putting the land into state ownership was one of the central tenets of Communism in 1917, when Lenin passed a decree handing Russia's farmland to the peasantry to till...Russian MPs finally approved a bill that will allow Russians to buy farmland for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution." What will be the the effect of the historic Russian land reform?

Thanks to Nandita Godbole

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