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major treatment
- In primitive culture: Peasant societies
comparison with industrial society
- In modernization: General features
establishment of Robotpatent
- In Robotpatent
role in manorialism
- In manorialism

influence on

land reform programs

In land reform: Political and social objectives

China
- In China: Rural collectivization

Marxist theory

In Marxism: Lenin

Lenin
- In Vladimir Lenin: Formation of a revolutionary party of Vladimir Lenin
- In Marxism: The dictatorship of the proletariat
Mao Zedong
- In Maoism
- In Mao Zedong: Mao and the Chinese Communist Party

feudal inheritance
- In inheritance: Divided or undivided inheritance

place in

Africa

Egypt and reforms by Saʿīd Pasha
- In Saʿīd Pasha

Europe

In history of Europe: Political, economic, and social background

Austria
Austrian Galicia
- In Ukraine: Galicia
Baltic states
Bohemia
- In Czechoslovak history: Re-Catholicization and absolutist rule
Denmark
- In history of Europe: Denmark
early modern Europe
18th century
- In history of Europe: Corporate society
France
German Reformation
- In Germany: The revolution of 1525
Germany
- In Germany: Conrad I
- In Germany: Transformation of rural life
Italy
- In Italy: Economic change
Poland
Prussia
- In Frederick II: Army and the state of Frederick II
Russia
Second Industrial Revolution
- In history of Europe: Modifications in social structure
17th century
- In history of Europe: Population
Sweden
- In Sweden: End of the union
- In Sweden: Social and economic conditions
Ukraine

U.S.S.R.

War Communism
- In Soviet Union: War Communism

Central Asia
- In history of Central Asia: Kazakh unrest
Japan
- In Japan: The Hideyoshi regime
Vietnam
- In Vietnam: Effects of French colonial rule

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: History Learning Site - The Lifestyle of Medieval Peasants.	Grace Young	Dec 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - What is a peasant? What are peasantries? A briefing paper on issues of definition.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - What is a peasant? What are peasantries? A briefing paper on issues of definition.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Nomadic Survival Tactics of the Shoshone Tribe.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 27, 2023
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Feb 14, 2020
	Article revised.	Brian Duignan	Aug 18, 2016
	Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Peasant Life.	Shiveta Singh	Mar 18, 2008
	Added new Web site: Banglapedia - Peasantry.	Shiveta Singh	Mar 18, 2008
	Added new Web site: History Learning Site - The Lifestyle of Medieval Peasants.	Shiveta Singh	Mar 18, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998