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 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.
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.
