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The agrarian problem in Albania during 1925-1939 has been dealt with in two time periods: 1925-1928 and 1928-1939. In the first period, following the overthrow of the democratic-bourgeois revolution of June 1924 that coincided with the coming to power of Ahmet Zogu as President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, the agrarian question remained unresolved and untreated internally. The ruling elite and supporters of the June 1924 Revolution had largely migrated out of Albania and into the countries where they had gone they had established against the Zogiste immigration organizations such as KONARE ((National Revolutionary Committee created in 1925) which is later named KCN (National Liberation Committee created in 1927)their main point was the implementation of agrarian reform aiming at implementing an agrarian reform in the interest of working populations, and resolving the agrarian question in Albania radically by confiscating land to the owners without giving them compensation to the peasantry. In the second period of 1928-1939, when Ahmet Zogu was in charge of the Albanian state as King of the Albanian Kingdom, he saw the urgent and necessary promise of undertaking an Agrarian Reform in the country with the aim: to revive the enthusiasm of peasants and change the image of this layer to the Monarchy and the Albanian monarch; the use of reform as a means of threatening his political opponents and rivals; pursuing an integration policy towards the West under the motto of "Opening the gates of civilization". The reform promised by Zogu consisted of taking the land to the owners and giving the land to the villagers for a reward. The intermediary links created to implement the agrarian reform in their composition had elements that came from the layers that dominated the Albanian politics, which found it difficult or impossible to adapt to the new legislation, the absorption of experience, methods and techniques. of the west in terms of implementing the occidental reforms in the country. The old feudal mentality and the fear of losing privileges was the main obstacle to non-implementation of agrarian reform and to the restriction of the country's transition from east.As the Italian diplomat Pieto Quaroni put it: "… we had not yet understood at that time that Zog was not thinking in fact, to undertake an agrarian reform, much less, a radical reform, left to do as he wanted without prompting. many, advising him to act cautiously" but the beavers whose agrarian reform was intrinsically concerned did not hear from that ear " . In drawing up the scientific paper I have relied on extensive literature consisting of archival sources, monographs, press of time, and memorialists' memoirs, and historiographical sources of foreign and Albanian authors related to the period in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
