The Decree on Land formed the basis of radical agrarian reforms in the country. Private ownership of land was abolished immediately and without compensation.
Big-landed estates, the land of the crown, of the monasteries and buildings, were placed in the charge of the Committees and of the Soviets Peasants'Deputies, which were to ensure the strict observance of the revolutionary rules and regulations on the confiscated estates.
A special provision of the decree stipulated that the land of toiling peasants was not subject to expropriation.