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The German Peasant's War and Anabaptist Community of Goods

Book by James M. Stayer; McGill-Queens University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Anabaptists--History--16th century, Peasants' War, 1524-1525

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

15 Tom Scott, "The Peasants War: A Historiographical Review...perpetuates the view of the Peasants War as a political struggle...programmes and consciousness in the Peasants War is that its unprecedented...Interpretation of the German Peasant War," in Scribner and Benecke...
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The Peasant War in Germany

Book by Frederich Engels; International publishers, 1926

Subjects:

Germany--Social Conditions, Peasants' War, 1524-1525

Collections: History, Entire Library

...hundred years have passed since the great Peasant War in Germany. It differs from similar peasant uprisings of the Fourteenth Century in Italy...in the process of development, while the Peasant War, unfolding in the epoch of early capitalism...
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The Peasants War in Germany, 1525-1526

Book by E. Belfort Bax; S. Sonnenschein, 1899

Subjects:

Peasants' War, 1524-1525

Collections: History, Entire Library

...enough, that the common man, be he peasant or townsman, could no longer bear it...the agitation which culminated in the Peasants War of 1525. The latter comprised men of...or the travelling scholar, to the peasant, the mercenary soldier out of employment...
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Russian Peasant Women

Book by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola; Oxford University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Peasantry--Soviet Union--History, Soviet Union--Rural Conditions, Women Farmers--Soviet Union--History, Women Peasants--Soviet Union--History, Women--Soviet Union--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...years offers a paradigm of peasant culture and behavior, illuminating...revolution in the city and a peasant war in the countryside. The peasants revolution, moreover, was...either reinforced preexisting peasant culture or brought changes...
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Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Book by Lynne Viola; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Collectivization Of Agriculture--Soviet Union--History, Government, Resistance To--Soviet Union--History, Peasant Uprisings--Soviet Union--History, Soviet Union--Economic Policy--1928-1932, Soviet Union--Rural Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of a longer tradition of peasant dissent, a popular culture...to and lived by Russian peasants and peasants in general. It is in this sense that the peasant revolt must be viewed as...epitomized the peasant civil war against Soviet power...

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Journal Articles on: peasant war

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Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922

Journal article by Jeffrey Brooks; Journal of Social History, Vol. 43, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...arrangements with peasants must have been largely...despite chronicling peasant resistance and its suppression...Soviet authorities gain peasant support during the Civil War through their administrative...he puts it, "Most peasants still objected to aspects...secondary in quelling peasant opposition, since...
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Asymmetrical Alliances, Organizational Democracy and Peasant Protest in El Salvador *

Journal article by Lisa Kowalchuk; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 40, 2003

Subjects:

El Salvador--Political aspects, El Salvador--Social aspects, Land law--Interpretation and construction, Land tenure--Demonstrations, protests, etc., Land tenure--Social aspects, Peasant uprisings--History, Peasant uprisings--Social aspects

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...organizations during the war; the excedentes...invasions. During the war, one analyst...early 1970s, the peasant organizations...the landless peasants interests were...sectors of organized peasants. Inequalities...As FMLN cadre, peasant organizers had...spending most of the war as a peasant organizer...
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Police-peasant Relations during the Formative Years of the New Economic Policy

Journal article by Hugh D. Hudson Jr.; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 50, 2008

Subjects:

Coups d etat, Forced labor, Peasants, Russian history, Society

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...64 Once more, the peasants emerged from police...only foundation for peasant dissatisfaction the...over growing rumours of war. Police in Ekaterinslav...appeared frequently. The peasants revealed a deep resentment...In the words of the peasant Golovlev, when peasants, many of them "common...slaughter and civil war," turned to Soviet...
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The Peasants' Kulak: Social Identities and Moral Economy in the Soviet Countryside in the 1920s

Journal article by Lynne Viola; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 42, 2000

Subjects:

20th century, History, Peasants, Politics, Revolutions, Russia, Socioeconomic factors, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...feared, as did one peasant, that "if I go...support.,41 Some peasants recalled the hungry days of the Civil War when they were...years before World War I). Along with...other category of peasants employed exclusively...label. And here peasant letters to Bednota...during the Civil War years. Here was a case of peasant social memory applied...much alive among peasants in the 1920s and...
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The Peasants in Early Turkish Literature

Journal article by Asim Karaomerlioglu; East European Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2002

Subjects:

Farm life--Portrayals, Intellectuals--Political activity, Literature--Turkey, Peasant culture--Portrayals, Peasantry--Portrayals, Poverty--Portrayals, Rural conditions--Portrayals, Rural life--Portrayals, Social problems--Portrayals, Turkey

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...consist of the backwardness of peasant production, the backward...the inability to wage a war against the natural elements...undertakings. As one old peasant in "Bir Orman Hikayesi...admits, "You know, we are peasants. Our minds are not well...distinction between a villager and a peasant. The first term encompasses...anybody living in the villages. Peasants, however, represent mostly...

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Magazine Articles on: peasant war

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Stalin's War on the Peasants

Magazine article by Peter Hylarides; Contemporary Review, Vol. 293, Spring 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Stalins War on the Peasants. by Peter Hylarides The Unknown Gulag...criminal regime: the repression of peasants in the early 1930s leading to the process...preparation of Stalins brutal treatment of peasants, of their lives in the settlements...
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Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

Magazine article by Christian Amodeo; Geographical, Vol. 75, September 2003

Subjects:

Pietro's Book: the Story of a Tuscan Peasant (Book)--Reviews

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...excitement generated by the war, which eventually punctures Pintis quiet peasant existence, is well captured...and feast days to which the peasants so looked forward. Pietros...anecdotes and rhymes--gems of peasant humour that poke fun of people in authority or fellow peasants hilarious reactions to modern...songs, its only the waging of wars theyre not so good at...
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Rascoala the Last Peasants' Revolt: In Early 1907 the Peasants of Romania Rose Up against Feudal Laws, Wealthy Landowners and the Agents Who Kept Them Living in Penury and Servitude. Markus Bauer Discusses the Legacy of an 'Unbelievable Bloodbath'

Magazine article by Markus Bauer; History Today, Vol. 60, September 2010

Subjects:

Peasant uprisings--History, Revolutions--History, Romanian history

Collections: History, Entire Library

...newly appointed war minister General...battles against peasant armies followed...within days the peasants resistance in the...the army for the peasants demands. Many of...defected to the peasant militias. Now Averescu...were destroyed, peasants and their families...the Second World War as an ally of Nazi...
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The Worker-Peasant Alliance as a Strategy for Rural Development in China

Magazine article by D.Y. Hsu, P.Y. Ching; Monthly Review, Vol. 42, March 1991

Subjects:

China--Politics and government, Mao Zedong--Political activity, Peasant culture--China, Peasantry--China, Rural development--China

Collections: Entire Library

...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 were defenseless against such...
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The Taiping Peasant Revolt

Magazine article by John Newsinger; Monthly Review, Vol. 52, October 2000

Subjects:

China--19th century AD, Peasant uprisings--China, Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Taiping Peasant Revolt. by John Newsinger...expectations? The Taiping peasant revolt was the greatest revolutionary...Hong Xiuquan, the son of a peasant farmer, who believed he was...Guangxi. A growing number of peasants, miners, and outlaws rallied...British wanted. The First Opium War began the process of opening...the Second and Third Opium Wars that saw Anglo-French troops...

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Newspaper Articles on: peasant war

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How War Hero McCain Betrayed the Peasant Who Saved His Life; TO THE RESCUE: John McCain, Circled, Is Saved by Villagers Including Mai Van on after His Jet Was Shot Down in 1967. Left: McCain and on Are Reunited in Hanoi in 1996

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 23, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

How War Hero McCain Betrayed the Peasant Who Saved His Life; TO THE RESCUE...candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant. On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On...establishing him asa true American war hero. But the story is at odds with...
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THE RED BARMY; BORIS YELTSIN: 1931-2007 the Son of Peasants, He Rose to Power, Killed off the Communist Party and Dismantled the Soviet Union, Defeated a Coup and Stunned the World by Bringing in Democracy. but He Started the Bloody War in Chechnya, Botched the Economy and Made No Effort to Tackle the Rising Tide of Corruption. Hampered by Booze, Depression, Illness and Increasingly Bizarre Behaviour, He Eventually Could Take No More

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 24, 2007

Subjects:

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...YELTSIN: 1931-2007 the Son of Peasants, He Rose to Power, Killed...but He Started the Bloody War in Chechnya, Botched the Economy...also entered into a disastrous war in Chechnya and was unable to...and serious errors". Born to peasants in the Ural mountains in 1931...
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Peace Brings No Prosperity to Serbs: Peasants Relocated to Srebrenica Feel Defeated by World Leaders

Newspaper article by Philip Smucker; The Washington Times, November 2, 1997

Subjects:

Mladic, Ratko

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...brings no prosperity to Serbs: Peasants relocated to Srebrenica feel...N. "safe area," Serbian peasants squatting in the charred remains...humanity in Europe since World War II. However, the international...me now because we fought a war, got nothing but lost everything...Iconovic. Still, the old peasant, sporting a traditional Serbian...
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CHINA: THE GREAT DIVIDE; Taking the Load: China's Economic Miracle Has Not Helped Its Peasants

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Miracle Has Not Helped Its Peasants. Byline: Max Hastings CHINA...defeated in the 1940s Civil War,receive much smaller pensions...the country live 900 million peasants who possess no share in Chinaswealth...which is the centrepiece of peasant dwellings. Heneeded a government...the charm of the cheerful peasant the world over. And unlike...
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My Son Had to Live like a Peasant; Furious Mother of Hero Killed by Afghan Policeman Lashes Standards of Barracks as His Emails Tell of Pride at Being Guardsman

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 8, 2009

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Barracks--Casualties, Electronic mail systems--Casualties, Email--Casualties, Police officers--Casualties, Police--Casualties, Soldiers--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

My Son Had to Live like a Peasant; Furious Mother of Hero Killed...treating British troops like peasants. Heartbroken Elizabeth Chant...accommodation. My son lived like a peasant in some barracks. Mrs Chant...The veteran of the first Iraq War, Northern Ireland and Bosnia...will lay a wreath at Grimsby War Memorial. The bodies of her...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: peasant war

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Peasants' War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PEASANTS WAR 1524 26, rising of the German...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 forces were crushed (1525...
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Hussite Wars

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HUSSITE WARS series of conflicts in the 15th...struggle between the landed and peasant classes. On the death (1419...rejected by the Taborites. Civil war now broke out between the Utraquists...declared deposed in 1466. A new war began between George and the...the religious element of the wars had largely disappeared. See...
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Engels, Friedrich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...fundamental books in Communist literature and profoundly influenced Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Among his other works is The Peasant War in Germany (tr. 1926). See selected correspondence with Marx, ed. by D. Torr (1942); the Collected Works of...
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RadiĆ, Stjepan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...founded (1905) the Croatian Peasant party. In 1918 he opposed the...centralism, and favoring a Croat peasant republic. After World War I, Radic dominated Croatian...as for land reform and reduced peasant taxes. Despite the electoral...
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Anabaptists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...accord with Scripture. Other factors contributing to the development and spread of Anabaptism include the peasant movement (see Peasants War ) and the revolutionary rhetoric of Thomas Munzer , late medieval mysticism and asceticism, and the writings...

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