FROM THE HISTORY OF PEASANT-LANDLORD CONFRONTATION IN IRAVAN GUBERNIA AT THE BEGINNING 20 CENTURY

Abstract

The article deals with the peasant-landlord confrontation in Iravan gubernia (government) at the beginning of the 20th century. The arehive materials show that disputes between the peasants and landlords on the land, on fulfillment of tax and duties had got a large-scale in all the uyezds of the qubernia. Sometimes these disputes caused open confliets. The government bodies were also guilty in the intensification of situation. Despite the complaint letters addressed to them, they pronounced judgement in landlords, favour, and considered the peasants, complaintsgrondless.