The Peasantry

Author : Lynne Viola,V. P. Danilov,N. A. Ivnitskii,Denis Kozlov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300127829

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The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930 by Lynne Viola,V. P. Danilov,N. A. Ivnitskii,Denis Kozlov Pdf

The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country’s social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents—with analysis and commentary—the most important primary Soviet documents dealing with the brutal economic and cultural subjugation of the Russian peasantry. Drawn from previously unavailable and in many cases unknown archives, these harrowing documents provide the first unimpeded view of the experience of the peasantry during the years 1927-1930.The book, the first of four in the series, covers the background of collectivization, its violent implementation, and the mass peasant revolt that ensued. For its insights into the horrific fate of the Russian peasantry and into Stalin’s dictatorship, The War Against the Peasantry takes its place an as unparalleled resource.

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317895190

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The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930 by David Moon Pdf

This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters of Russian society were peasants in these years, and David Moon explores all aspects of their life xxx; including the rural economy, peasant households, village communities xxx; and their political role, including protest against the landowning elites. In the process he presents a fresh perspective on the history of Russia itself. A big book in every way xxx; and compellingly readable.

Author : Stefan Kieniewicz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226435268

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Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry by Stefan Kieniewicz Pdf

Captured in this study are the complexity and fascination of one hundred and fifty years of Polish political, cultural, and socioeconmic history. The author traces the course of peasant emancipation in Poland from its beginnings during the Enlightenment to its aftermath in the cultural awakening of the peasantry during the half century prior to World War I and shows how the peasant question played a vital role in the struggle for independence in partitioned Poland. The book synthesizes, for the first time in any language, the work of leading Polish historians during the present century. It presents a clear analysis of the disintegration of the economic system based on serfdom and compulsory labor prevalent in feudal Poland and traces the emergence of modern capitalist conditions, including wage labor and independent property rights. Also analyzed is the role of foreign goverments in the emacipation process. The freeing of the serfs took place during a period when all or most of the country was under the rule of Russia, Prussia, or Austria. Although emancipation was due primarily to economic forces withing Poland, it was hastened by peasant resistance and the national struggle for political independence led by Polish patriots who demanded far-reaching social reforms. This comprehensive study provides valuable information not only to those with a particular interest in Poland but also to scholars concerned with the parallel problems in Russia andother Eastern Eurpean countries, to specialists in agrarian history, and to students of Eastern European history who lack adequate reading materials in English.

Author : Michael Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977411

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Reconceptualizing The Peasantry by Michael Kearney Pdf

The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and post?Cold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative theoretical views.Reconceptualizing the Peasantry looks at rural society in general and considers the problematic distinction between rural and urban. Most definitions of and debates about peasants have focused on their presumed social, economic, cultural, and political characteristics, but Kearney articulates the way in which peasants define themselves in a rapidly changing world. In the process, he develops ethnographic and political forms of representation that correspond to contemporary postpeasant identities. Moving beyond a reconsideration of peasantry, the book situates anthropology in global context, showing how the discipline reconstructs itself and its subjects according to changing circumstances.

Author : R.E. Elson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349254576

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The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia by R.E. Elson Pdf

This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great global markets based on small-scale production, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. However, such changes brought with them new forces - stronger states, more regular legal systems, a revolution in communications, intensive commercialisation - which themselves worked to undermine the foundations of peasant society and, eventually, to transform peasants into farmers, workers and citizens.

Author : Romesh Dutt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368800215

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The Peasantry of Bengal by Romesh Dutt Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Charles David Smith
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Coffee industry
ISBN : 9171062890

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Did Colonialism Capture the Peasantry? by Charles David Smith Pdf

Author : Peasantry (IRELAND)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : BL:A0018977401

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Lachrymæ Hibernicæ; or the Grievances of the Peasantry of Ireland, especially in the Western Counties. By a Resident Native by Peasantry (IRELAND) Pdf

Author : Amy S. Wyngaard
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0874138531

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From Savage to Citizen by Amy S. Wyngaard Pdf

"Using methodologies derived from cultural studies, new historicism, and the history of ideas, Amy S. Wyngaard argues that changing ideas of individual, class, and national identity in the eighteenth century were elaborated around portrayals of the peasant."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul H. Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0804733732

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Images of the Medieval Peasant by Paul H. Freedman Pdf

The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.

Author : Alexander F. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107435292

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The Peasant in Postsocialist China by Alexander F. Day Pdf

The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores the role of the peasantry throughout Chinese history and its importance within the development of post-socialist-era politics. Examining the various ways in which the peasant is historicized, Day shows how different perceptions of the rural lie at the heart of the divergence of contemporary political stances and of new forms of social and political activism in China. Indispensable reading for all those wishing to understand Chinese history and politics, The Peasant in Postsocialist China is a new point of departure in the debate as to the nature of tomorrow's China.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052133070X

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The Peasantry in the French Revolution by Peter Jones Pdf

The contention of Georges Lefebvre that the peasantry occupied center stage during the early years of the Revolution is vindicated with the support of fresh evidence culled from archives, unpublished theses and other sources.

Author : Leigh Binford,Lesley Gill,Steve Striffler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781805393481

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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America by Leigh Binford,Lesley Gill,Steve Striffler Pdf

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.

Author : Xiaorong Han
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791483923

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Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 by Xiaorong Han Pdf

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals’ writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants. Xiaorong Han is Assistant Professor of History at Butler University.

Author : John G. Michie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Aberdeenshire (Scotland)
ISBN : BL:A0026794314

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Deeside Tales, Or, Sketches of Men and Manners Among the Peasantry of Upper Deeside Since 1745 by John G. Michie Pdf