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Second Congress of Soviets adopts the Decree on Land

On 8 November 1917 N.S. (26 October O.S.) the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted the Decree on Land, abolishing landlord property without compensation and endorsing the peasant mandate. This is not the 1930 collectivization Fact. In the causal graph this event strengthens Food-Supply Resilience, a driver that weakens Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) — an improving welfare path.

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On 8 November 1917 N.S. (26 October O.S.) the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted the Decree on Land, abolishing landlord property without compensation and endorsing the peasant mandate. Lenin presented the text.

Context

This is not the 1930 collectivization Fact. It is a 1917 endorsement of seizures. Food-supply later collapsed under requisition — separate rows.

Shared responsibility with other offices is part of the record. Sharing is not a reason to drop this person's documented role, and it is not a reason to treat every later consequence as their handwriting.

Why it matters

Improving path onto peasant land control, medium confidence because requisition soon overrode it.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vladimir Lenin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.65 · verified

    Lenin presented the decree using SR peasant mandates. The Congress adopted it. Implementation was local seizure more than cadastral reform.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Decree on LandEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Lenin, Decree on Land, 26 October 1917Marxists Internet Archive / Congress decree reprint · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The decree text is official. Britannica records it. Peasant memoirs and later agrarian histories independently describe local seizure as the implementation.

Later commission estimates are attributed to those commissions.

Established: the Decree on Land was adopted on 8 November 1917 N.S. Not established: a durable private-property order, or that famine was thereby prevented.

Central files can show that an order was issued; they cannot reconstruct every locality's implementation. Memoir and literary evidence is independent texture, never the sole causal source. Official statistics of the period are treated as claims with known incentives. Later archival openings and museum publications are independent or successor-state records. The contribution is direct where this person signed, chaired, or issued the act, and remains bounded by other offices that had to act. Readers who want the welfare path should open the named driver rather than treating a portrait as the mechanism.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVladimir Lenin
  2. contributed toFactSecond Congress of Soviets adopts the Decree on Land
  3. strengthensDriverFood-Supply Resilience
  4. weakensIndicatorPoverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)

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Factrail. (2026). Second Congress of Soviets adopts the Decree on Land. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-decree-on-land-1917

https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-decree-on-land-1917

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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