THE CHANGE OF LAND USERS IN LITHUANIA DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1920 AND 2014

Abstract

The paper presents the Lithuanian agricultural land users change analysis in almost a century period. The reasons leading to agricultural land users change trends were analysed. The main factors affecting the relationship of land use and the way of the land use are political changes in the country, economic and social aspects have less impact. Therefore, taking into account the political situation in Lithuania of this long analysed period, the agricultural land users change was analysed in three stages, which took place at the time of the conversion of reforms: land use between 1920 and 1940, land use during the Soviet period between 1940 and1990, and land use after the restoration of Lithuania's independence between 1990 and 2014. After the analysis of the land use of these periods land use characteristics of appropriate epochs as well as the land users’ change trends (of the entire period) and their causes are presented in the paper.

Keywords: land users, land reform, poor and landless peasants, farmers, agricultural land.

Article DOI: http://doi.org/10.15544/RD.2015.040