PEASANT AND LAND REFORM IN BALKARIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY (PROJECTS AND DECISIONS ON PROVISION OF LANDLESS PEASANTS ON THE EXAMPLE OF FORMATION OF NEW VILLAGES IN THE FOOTHILLS)
Article is devoted to the analysis of projects and decisions of the Russian administration on arrangement of the landless peasants who have appeared as a result of class (peasant) reform in Balkaria in 1866-67. Abolition of serfdom caused the necessity of the land reform to provide land to landless peasants. Therefore there were new Balkarauls (villages) in the foothills.