Repartition

Repartition (Russian: передел, romanized: peredel) was a practice in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union of the periodic redistribution of the peasant's arable land by the village community.

For the proposal to resolve The Troubles, see Repartition of Ireland.

The traditional household did not permanently hold a particular allotment in the open fields. What the household had was the right, so long as it remained within the village community (`mir'), to a holding commensurate with its size. The mir's assembly, the skhod, periodically redistributed the arable land to allow for changes in the size of households, and for new (or extinguished) households.

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