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Peasants' War
Peasants' War (1524–26) A mass revolt of the German lower classes during the
REFORMATION. It began in south-west Germany and spread down the River Rhine and into Austria. Frustrated by economic hardships, the rebels were encouraged by radical
PROTESTANT preachers to expect a second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of social equality and justice. They raided and pillaged in uncoordinated bands, driving
LUTHER to condemn them in his fierce broadsheet
Against the thieving and murdering hordes of the peasants (1525). Luther also supported the army of the Swabian League under Philip of Hesse, which helped to crush the main body of insurgents at Frankenhausen. Over 100,000 rebels were eventually slaughtered.
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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...two cultures, Communist and peasant. The onslaught of the state...produced a variety of types of peasant protest including murders and...disturbances in which over two million peasants participated nationwide in...Viola characterizes this as a "peasant revolt" against collectivization...state ...
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Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991.(Review)
Magazine article from: Political Science Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...successful at mobilizing the peasants than other revolutionary movements...identifies the development of peasant administration as the key...process of the TPLF encouraging peasants to wield power and manage...the success of the TPLF in peasant mobilization and military...the people and on ...
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Peasant Rebels: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...sought to eradicate peasant culture and transform...an economic colony. Peasants responded as a "distinct...protests and riots by peasant women-to physical...that led to a civil war between two competing...compelling way thereby making Peasant Rebels an impressive...humanity and agency and ...
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Shaping peasant political discourse during the new economic policy: the newspaper krest'ianskaia gazeta and the case of "vladimir ia".
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...carried out in part through a war to control the illegal Marxist...forward with creating a new peasant newspaper, Kresr'ianskaia gazeta (The Peasant Gazette), that would be aimed...elements, but at the "broad peasant masses." (6) The question...point the broad masses of the peasants had not ...
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Landless Peasants Demand Division of Wealthy Estates
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/29/1995; 700+ words
; ...Juan Jose Guiterrez and the peasants who occupied his farm are...force made up of landless peasants like Maria and her forefathers. This situation led to a peasant rebellion in 1932 in which 30,000 peasants died and later was a principal cause of the civil war which ended in 1992. Father...
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Police-Peasant Relations During the Formative Years of the New Economic Policy
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...serious anxiety among peasants. One peasant outside a teahouse in...circulated amongst the peasants of the Moscow region...rumours, he and Civil War hero General Semyon...of Lenin's death. Peasants attending a non-party...death might lead to a peasant uprising against the...
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Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The great majority of peasant movements, therefore, were...What was striking about pre-war or for that matter traditional Chinese peasants was not their revolutionary...had to try "to initiate a peasant movement without peasants" (p. 233). The attitudes...
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Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...work seeks to understand how peasants perceived, reacted to and...years from the Second World War to post-Soviet decollectivization...their most energetic members, peasants largely abandoned active resistance...horses for personal reasons. Peasant strategies included passive...Indeed, in every ...
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Russian Peasants Go To Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Jane Burbank. Russian Peasants Go To Court: Legal Culture in the...creative intellectual, the "Russian peasant" can be used to explain just about...have been fairly consistent. Russian peasants under the last tsars lived in a legal...overall, as Burbank points out, the peasant profile of the court ...
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The worker-peasant alliance as a strategy for rural development in China.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 3/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...2 hectares per capita, peasants cultivated their land with...years of destruction from wars and perhaps as many years...poor land, the majority of peasants owned very few productive...the poor and lower middle peasant households--60 to 70 percent...areas of farmland. Individual peasants ...
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Peasant Uprisings
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...influence of peasantry (or recent peasants among urban workers and the...invasions (the 1812 Patriotic War and World War II). Scholars emphasizing the continuity of peasant resistance over centuries view...as a resumption of peasant wars, in a different socioeconomic...period as "the ...
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Peasants' War, German
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PEASANTS' WAR, GERMAN PEASANTS' WAR, GERMAN. The German Peasants' War was among the most significant rebellions in...rebellion fit none of the stereotypes of Europe's peasant revolts. In 1524 – 1525 peasant armies briefly...
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Organizations, Peasant
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Organizations, Peasant Peasants — and peasant organizations...Twentieth-century peasant wars — such as...revolutions and the Vietnam War (1957 –...organizations of peasants and small farmers...
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peasants
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...extensive literatures on the social structure of peasant societies and on peasant movements and rebellions . The writings...best introductions to these topics (see Peasants , 1966, and Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century , 1971 ).
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Peasants' War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peasants' War 1524-26, rising of the...sparked the explosion. When the peasants heard the church attacked...revolt broke out in 1524. The peasants of Swabia and Franconia organized...conditions. Some atrocities by the peasants (e.g., the massacre of...and firm leadership, the peasant ...
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