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Land Reforms in the RSFSR
As I understand it, the Bolsheviks recognized well that nationalizing the large landowner's estates would provide the cities and Army with sufficient food (as it was already 'social' to an extent), but to win over the peasantry they had to divvy out the land to the backwards peasants that worked the farms (to also, as I would assume, avoid arousing the superstitions of the peasantry that the Bolsheviks represented a new caste of landlords or whatever). Obviously, the balkanization of the countryside posed serious problems for the Soviet Union later (having to be solved through collectivization) -- my question is: what if they had not done this? This is playing with alternative history of course, and I recognize that this was a problem only in retrospect, but would the Bolsheviks be able to have mustered the same support they had in the Civil War and afterwards had they straight up nationalized the large estates?
