ABSTRACT
The second period of agrarian reform on communistic lines dates from 1927. This time, in contrast to those early attempts, it is a question of systematic State action, planned on generous lines and carried out with the aid of immense resources. The policy of collectivizing agriculture, especially in its simpler manifestations, finds in Russia a soil more propitious than elsewhere, as common property in land was deeply rooted in the old village constitution, and was by no means eradicated from the minds of men by the Stolypin reform. In fact, a large number of collective farms formed in the new period of agrarian communism are always collapsing. The incentive to collectivization, however, is only one of the means adopted to achieve the socialization of agriculture. In the collective farms everything depends on human beings, whose behaviour determines success or failure in this sphere.
