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Changes of land users in interwar Lithuania

Changes of land users in interwar Lithuania

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Date of publication
december 2015
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:LV2017000042
Pages
6-14

The article presents the analysis of the change of land users in the Republic of Lithuania during the period between 1919 and 1940. The main factor affecting the relationship of land and its use was the political changes in the country, whereas economic and social aspects had less influence. During the period between 1919 and 1939 the land reform of independent Lithuania not only strengthened the country's agriculture, but also laid the foundations for the entire nation-state, it was one of the most significant achievements of independence, a real agrarian revolution, which intensified the land use. The main goal of the land reform was to alienate and distribute the state land and the land of large estates to peasants and to complete distribution of village land into individual farmsteads. Landlords were left inalienable 80 hectares (later 150 ha) of land area. The land from the State Land Fund was distributed to volunteers and new settlers (the landless) peasants up to 8-10 ha, to estate workers and rural craftsmen – up to 1.5-2 ha, as well as to poor peasants, state enterprises, farms and forestries, etc.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Valciukiene, J., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg. (Lithuania)
Atkoceviciene, V., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg. (Lithuania)
Sudoniene, V., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg. (Lithuania)

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