nationalization of the land

He demanded the confiscation of all private estates, the nationalization of the land, and its management by local peasant soviets.

Lenin's nationalization of the land in 1917 and 1918 created a legally favourable environment for the Soviet zapovednik system, since problems with securing large areas of land for this purpose from private owners immediately disappeared.

Since one of the ideological hallmarks of Latin American populism was the empowerment of the national and its identification with the state, including nationalization of the land, natural resources and key industries as common practice, it was seen almost from the start by American policy makers to offer a challenge to US hegemony over the Americas.