Why is it incomplete to see changes in land relations only as economic reform?

Correct answer: Because it also challenged rural power and landlord dominance

The governing concept is that land relations involve both economic ownership and social-political power. In revolutionary Russia, changing who controlled land affected the authority of landlords, the dependence of peasants, village institutions and the balance of power in the countryside. It could therefore alter class relations and political influence, not merely production or income. Option A is correct because it recognises this wider transformation. Option B is historically and logically irrelevant, since the issue was not an increase in the Tsar’s property. Option C reverses the political significance of peasant mobilisation, and D describes an impossible institutional change.