AGRARIAN REFORMS IN THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE HISTORY (THE SECOND HALF OF THE ХХ <sup>TH</sup> CENTURY)
The author reveals the main directions, trends and some results of agrarian reforms in the history of the Russian village of the ХХ <sup>th</sup> century, considers the evolution of agrarian relations system in historical aspect, studies the difficulties and contradictions of agrarian transformations, shows that the distinctive feature of the reforms was the forced nature of their implementation, and concludes that the agrarian reforms, implemented in the second half of the ХХ <sup>th</sup> century, did not affect the fundamental bases of agriculture.