Search Results - "peasants"

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The expectation that the Nigerian elites who were vested with political power at independence in 1960 would improve the lives of the populace appeared to be misplaced, because the nascent Nigerian state bounced from one avoidable social conflict to the other. One of the avoidable problems was the i...

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The article attempts to show the apogee of Russian serfdom as one of the most significant direct and immediate results of Peter the Great’s transformations. The proprietary (proprietorial) interest of the landed gentry in relation to the local lands and peasants received a previously unthinkable imp...

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The article is devoted to the study of the resettlement processes that took place on the territory of the Tara district of the Tobolsk category at the end of the 17th century. The source for the study was the Tara County Sentinel Book of 1701. It is noted that the main participants in the resettleme...

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The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a “triple lacuna”in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinesecinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independentfilmmaker Gan Xiao’er directed three...

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In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) that included the implementation of a Comprehensive Rural Reform (CRR) with the purpose to allocate and formalize land for peasant populations. In parallel, Colombia was committed...

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The relationship between representatives of the generations of the “revolutionary turning point” (born at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries) and “children of the revolution” (those whose childhood fell on the first post-revolutionary fifteen years) is analyzed. The role of the young “godless” of t...

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Peculiarities of paperwork of the Tobolsk ecclesiastical consistory in cases of divorce of peasants due to adultery of their wives in the second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries are considered. Documents stored in the State Archives in Tobolsk testify to the presence of a number of stages of...

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Abstract The paper analyzes land grabbing, the processes of resistance, and the fates of peasants who sold their land as a result of the expansion of oil palm cultivation in the Northeast of the state of Pará (NEP). This is a qualitative study. 21 semi-structured interviews were conducted in Acará,...

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the relationship in the spiritual sphere between the representatives of the peasant generation of the “revolutionary turning point” (born at the turn of the XIX—XX centuries) and Komsomol members from the generation of “children of the revolution” (their chi...

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The article contains systematic information about the process of resettlement of dispossessed peasants to the North of Western Siberia during the 1930s. It is alleged that this was the first stage of peasant exile, which began in February 1930. In total, researchers distinguish three stages (1930-19...

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This article examines the process of settlement and development of the Middle Irtysh territories. Special attention is given to the northern regions of the Omsk region, characterized by their remoteness and natural-geographical location features. The focus is on the Russian settlers’ colonization of...

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This study explores the content of the Bolshevik food policy in Kuban and the Black Sea region during the transitional period from War Communism to the New Economic Policy in the early 1920s. Employing historical-genetic, retrospective methods, and a communicative approach, the article draws on vari...

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This article is an analysis of Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions, published in 1782. It places the dictionary in the historical and cultural context of Enlightenment Europe, from which the genre was drawn, and suggests that Chulkov’s use of the genre was part of his own efforts...

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The article considers the main principles of the Soviet social policy towards disabled peasants in the 1920s–1930s, when they were the least protected category of citizens. The disabled in cities had priority in receiving state social assistance, while “disabled peasants” were supported on a residua...

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Using the example of Siberia, the implementation of collection activities in support of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA) on the Western Front is examined in the article. Attention is drawn to the fact that the initiative to carry out such actions came from the country’s leadership and the...

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The evolution of landowners ‘ ownership rights to land and peasants in Russia of the XVII century has been considered. Throughout the century, there has been a tendency to strengthen local land ownership in Russia, which was expressed in the legal and actual merger of the patrimony and the estate, i...

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The article is devoted to the little-studied issue of the reaction of the Russian periodicals to changes in the zemstvo electoral legislation in accordance with the Regulations on zemstvo institutions in 1890. The positions of the leading conservative (“Moskovskie vedomosti”, “Grazhdanin”, “Russian...

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