“…(4) The main land reforms during the 20 th century happened under unusual circumstances, namely, as part of a social revolution (Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia in 1917, China in 1949), as the outcome of war (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Eastern and Central Europe after 1945), as part of the process of liberation from a colonial power (Kenya, Algeria, eastern and central Europe after 1989) or as part of a process of systemic change (Ethiopia, Vietnam, China in 1978). (5) At the beginning of the 21 st century, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (hereafter referred to as CIS) generated creation of new land tenure in many of these former blocks. Therefore, the land reforms became one of the main tools of the transition program.…”