Revolutionary disturbances in the early XX century: agrarian law of Central and South Eastern Europe

The article analyzes the agrarian legislation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1920. It was discovered that a peasantry was the active subject of revolutionary disturbances in the Central and Southeastern Europe in the early XX century. The leadership elite of the newly established states linked the future of their nations with the peasantry. It is substantiated that, despite the objective differences for these state entities, agrarian reforms in these countries had one common denominator. They were directed at the formation and development of numerical national individual medium peasant land tenure. The problem in the article was the subject of a partial discussion in the scientific and educational literature. The authors have mainly studied some aspects of agrarian reform in individual countries. At the same time, taking into account the scientific and practical significance of the identified topic, a comparative analysis of the agrarian legislation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia is promising. The author aims to study the agrarian legislation of Poland , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the context of revolutionary disturbances in Europe between 1918 and 1920. An analysis of the agrarian legislation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other European countries convinces that the agrarian question in these states was socioeconomic and socio-political. A peasantry was an active subject of European revolutionary disturbances in the early XX century. The leadership elite of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia saw the basis of the newly emerging national states in the peasantry. Priority in their domestic policy belonged to the solution of the agrarian question. Despite the objective differences for these state entities, agrarian reforms in these countries had one common denominator. They aimed at the formation and development of numerical national individual medium peasant land ownership. Provision of peasants to land was carried out through the alienation of large land tenure, the definition of the boundaries of inalienable land ownership.