To the question of the impact on the agricultural policy of the Russian state in the second half of the nineteenth - early twentieth century socio-political factors
In the article the author analyzes the complexity and difficulty of the social agrarian reform in Russia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th century and the particular urgency of its implementation. Land relations are the foundation on which the entire national economic life of the country rests. The reforms have created prospects for overcoming the global economic crisis and have brought relations in the agricultural sector to a whole new level. The author shows that the democratic forces in Russian society have already grown and the next decisive step towards the rural workers has been taken - protection not only from landlessness, but also from exploitation