# Second Congress of Soviets adopts the Decree on Land

Date: 1917

## The fact

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](/people/vladimir-lenin) presented the text.

Later speeches, cult, and measured outcomes are not mixed into this Fact.

## 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.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Lenin, Decree on Land, 26 October 1917 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/26.htm; Marxists Internet Archive / Congress decree reprint). Later commission estimates are attributed to those commissions.

## Significance

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

The attached driver is [food-supply-resilience](/drivers/food-supply-resilience).

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original protocol with a different date or signatory; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of war, weather, or unauthorized local action.

The documentary limit is the same for every instrument in this dossier. 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. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score and do not cancel the original instrument. 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.

The documentary limit is the same for every instrument in this dossier. 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. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score and do not cancel the original instrument. 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.

The documentary limit is the same for every instrument in this dossier. 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. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score and do not cancel the original instrument. 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.

The documentary limit is the same for every instrument in this dossier. 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. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score and do not cancel the original instrument. 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.

## People

- Vladimir Lenin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-lenin

## Drivers

- Food-Supply Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-supply-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decree-on-Land
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/26.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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