In approximately oneyear time between May of 1946 and April of 1947, the Communist Party introduced the program of peaceful land reform focusing on land expropriation on the basis of the land policy of rentandinterest reduction in the AntiJapanese War and attempted the program in practice in the ShaanxiGansuNingxia Border Areas. Afterwards owing to serious pressure of the civil war, the farmers made only limited profits in the practice of proliferation of land right. The attempt of the program was converted into a program of land reform to violently deprive landlords of their land because of the interaction of such specific elements as grassroot corruption and fierce contradiction between people and land in the liberated areas. However, the attempt shows that there used to be a different complete idea about solving the issue of land in the history of the Communist Party of China.

Chinese revolution; peaceful land reform; bonds of land; land expropriation