Lietuvos istorijos institutas

The paper examines the impact of total land reclamation on the Soviet modernisation of agriculture and the countryside, analyses the political, economic, and social aspects of the Soviet reconstruction of the homestead settlement system, and attempts to assess the economic

Based on Russian archival materials and other sources, the article reveals and analyses the political and social-economic aspects of the Soviet land reform of 1944–1948, examines statistical quantitative indicators. It seeks to reinterpret and reassess the objectives, the course, and the consequences of the land reform and to show how the socio-economic structure of the rural society was being changed and what it became. The results of the study suggest that it is reasonable to conclude that after the reform, Lithuania was dominated by small rather than medium-sized farms as claimed by Soviet historiography and the Soviet authorities. This was the result of a targeted and ollectivisation-oriented policy of the leadership of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and not the result of land shortage. The land reform can be seen as a social revolution, which led to radical qualitative socio-economic changes in the countryside, but the political goal of winning over a larger part of the peasantry to their side was not achieved.

Remiantis antisovietinio pasipriešinimo 1944–1953 m. dokumentais ir kitais šaltiniais, stengtasi nustatyti partizanų ateities nepriklausomos Lietuvos valstybės viziją, vaizdinį, nagrinėjamas pogrindžio narių projektuotas būsimos valstybės politinis, socialinis ir ekonominis modelis, jo pagrindiniai dėmenys ir principai, partizanų politinės minties evoliucija ir kontekstas.