RUSSIAN NOBLES MUST VACATE ALL LAND HOLDINGS BY NEW YEAR
Moscow, USSR (JFK+50) On March 2, 1925, Associated Press reports that the nobles and landlords in Soviet Russia have been "given notice...they must vacate all their land holdings by January 1, 1926."
The decree was issued by the council of the people's commissars.
AP adds that this ends all the rights left to the the members of the "old regime" and "places all property entirely in the hands of the proletariat*."
The order does not apply to those who served in the Red Army** or who supported the Russian revolution.
In return for vacating their lands, the former nobles and landlords will receive "small allotments of land in distant areas."
*proletariat is the social class of wage earners whose labor provides the economic power of the state
**Red Army was the name of the Soviet army from its creation in 1918 until renamed in 1946. It was the main land warfare branch of the Soviet armed forces.
SOURCE
"Nobles Must Yield All Their Holdings In Russia Jan 1," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 2, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
