Bonch-Osmolovskii, A[natolii Iosifovich].

Komu zemlia dostanetsia? [Who will get the land?].

Ekaterinburg: Tip. Vr. Tsentr. Voenno-Prom. Komit, 1919. Octavo (18 × 11 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. Item #P5579

This land reform pamphlet was published during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922) by revolutionary narodnik Anatolii Bonch-Osmolovskii (1857–1930). The author’s political activity began in 1876 when he was a student at St. Petersburg University. Subsequently he was a member of clandestine revolutionary organizations Zemlia i volia [Land and Liberty] and Chernyii peredel [Black Repartition], eventually joining the SRs (Socialist Revolutionary Party). In this pamphlet, the author attempts to reorient the political discussion of the above organizations toward the use of the land that would be acceptable and beneficial for the Russian peasantry. Variously arrested and exiled for his political activity, Bonch-Osmolovskii was especially focused on the question of land reform, founding a secret peasant organization on his hereditary estate Blon’, in the Minsk region (modern day Belarus). After the 1917 Revolution, Bonch-Osmolovskii came to head one of the first Sovkhoz farms in the Belorussian SSR. As of January 2020, KVK and OCLC show a single copy at Geneva. NYPL holds a photocopy and a variant edition published at Omsk is held by the Hoover Institution.

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