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  Decree on Land Nationalization, November 8, 1917  . Landed proprietorship is abolished forthwith without compensation.1 . The landed estates, as well as all appanages, the monasterial and church lands, with all their livestock, implements, farm buildings, and everything pertaining thereto, shall be placed under the control of the volost Land Committees and the uezd Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies pending the meeting of the Constituent Assembly. . All damage to the confiscated property, which henceforth belongs to the whole people, is declared a felony, punishable by the revolutionary courts. The uezd Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies shall take all necessary measures for the preservation of the strictest order during the confiscation of the estates of the landlords, for determining which particular estates shall be subject to confiscation, for drawing up inventories of all property confiscated, and for the strictest revolutionary protection of all land transferred to the people and all structures, implements, cattle, supplies, etc. . The following peasant Instructions, compiled by the Izvestiia of All Russian Soviet of Peasants’ Deputies from  local peasant Instructions and published in no.  of the Izvestiia (Petrograd, September , ) are everywhere to serve as a guide in carrying out the great land reforms until a final decision on the latter is taken by the Constituent Assembly. . The land of ordinary peasants and ordinary Cossacks shall not be confiscated. ...

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