Opposition from Peasants Flashcards
What percentage of Russia was made up by peasants?
-70-80%
What were peasant uprisings often followed by?
-significant reforms
Example of peasant opposition to the 1861 emancipation edict? (unrest throughout the period).
-peasant rebellions reaching a new high between 1900-1907
-setting fire to rural property, appropriation of private land- mad about redemption payment-
-Nicholas II cancels in 1907.
When did the unrest in terms of the 1861 emancipation edict quieten down for a while?
-not until the the 1890s.
Under the Tsars what did the peasants supposedly become?
-more politically intelligent in their demands.
What did ‘rural folk’ sometimes do under the Tsars to encourage reform?
-appropriate private land
-refuse to raise tax.
-rob warehouses
-arson on farm equipment
-attacking landowners.
What were the black earth region revolts of 1906-1907?
-revolts.
-Stolypin tried to appease with land reforms.
How long did Stolypin’s land reforms appease peasants? black earth region revolts
1908-1914
-ww1’s impacts caused more disturbance
-peasant vigilism
-helped encourage events of 1905.
How did the civil war (COMMUNISTS) effect peasants?
-riots and peasant armies
Example of a leader of quasi-independent peasant army? (red supporters)
-Chapayvev who sympathised with the Bolsheviks.
Why did the peasants also support the whites?
-mad about grain requisitioning under Lenin’s policy of war communism.
-NEP introduced to appease peasants.
How did the peasants respond to collectivisation and dekulakisation (STALIN)
-thousands died de to scale and speed (and removal of mir in 1930)
-refusal to cooperate slaughtering large numbers of cattle and horses.
What was opposition like under Khrushchev?
-relative peace
-food shortages due to dodgy agricultural policies.
In what years were there significant rural disturbances?
1904 and 1905.
