Expropriation

Expropriation ( novolat. Expropriatio - deprivation of property; from lat. Ex - from + proprius - property):

• Forced disposition of property of individual owners .
• Legal expropriation - forced gratuitous ( confiscation ) or paid ( requisition ) alienation of property made by state bodies. The object of expropriation can be both immovable (for example, land when conducting railways or dirt roads), and movable property .
• Deprivation of property and previous social status of one social class by another, and within the class - of one layer of it by another. An example of expropriation within a class by virtue of a legislative act is the secularization of church estates.
• Robberies ("forced seizure of property", abbreviated as exs ) of private individuals and government agencies conducted by the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary parties before the 1917 revolution to finance their underground activities ( for example, see Camo ).
• Immediately after the 1917 revolution, the Bolshevik government announced the abolition of private ownership of the means of production and began the expropriation of private property in the territories they controlled ( see also Robbery looted ) ^[1]
• In the 30s and 40s of the 20th century, the expropriation of private property took place in all territories that the Red Army occupied for one reason or another: in Moldova , in Western Ukraine , in Belarus , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Germany ( GDR ) and other countries.
• In the XX century, in a number of countries in Europe , Asia , Africa and Latin America, to solve the agrarian question, the expropriation of large land holdings ( latifundia ) was carried out.