There are accounts of Bashkirs, upset over their lost land, taking peasant land for themselves.

The peasant land was taken over by the United States, which caused a dramatic shift in the standards of living.

Alemán's government allowed capitalist entrepreneurs to rent peasant land.

In the whole Empire, peasant land declined 4.1%,13.3% outside the ex Polish zone and 23.3% in the 16 black earth provinces.

Boyars in search of wealth began encroaching on peasant land and their military allegiance to the prince weakened.

But agriculture officials say outside investors have expressed interest in buying or renting the best peasant land, although only a handful of deals have yet been negotiated.

The government selected the best fertile sections for potatoes from peasant lands.

As a proportion of all peasant land, the area in which scattered strips were consolidated into coherent holdings failed to reach 10 per cent.

A major success of the land reform program was the redistribution of nearly 50 percent of peasant lands within its first two years.

When magnates began buying up peasant land and making the farmers their dependents, it cost the central government dear.