АГРАРНАЯ ПОЛИТИКА РОССИЙСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ ВО ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЕ XIX - НАЧАЛЕ XX В. (ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ РЯЗАНСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the agrarian policy of the Russian Empire at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. The author substantiates that a complex of socio-economic problems in the country was associated with inadequate land support and the communal system of land tenure of the main taxation estate - the peasantry. By the example of the Ryazan province it is shown that the weak sides of the agrarian sector were the following: the unfavorable conditions of land rent, the increased taxation and the decrease in the paying capacity of the rural population, as well as a low level of agricultural intensification. Basing on the analysis of archival materials and on the attraction of data from the periodical press, the paper establishes that the main task of government policy during that period was to grant peasants the free right to leave the community and to assign allotment land to them for personal property.