Peasant ops

• Why was the threat of Peasants always taken very seriously?

  Were the largerst population

  • 80-90% at least 70%
• What was the Impact of the Emancipation Edict on Peasant Attitudes?

  Unleashed a number of disturbances involving thousands of peasants

  • only eased in 1890s
  • helped stopped through land captains 1889
  • Redemption payements riots 1900-07
• What were the Black Earth Region Revolts?

  1906-7

  • Resulted in Stolypins Land Reforms to appease peasant grievances
  • Indicates the peasants were successful in employing direct action on a wider scale
• When were food prices revolts + why were they inportant?

  1916

  • exacerbated by lack of tech + materials so showed the need for reform
  • Intergal part of the revolutionary events on 1917
  • Peasant Vigilantism
  • More organised than before with help from the army
• What was the impact of the CIvil war on peasant attitudes?

  Riots during civil war

  • indepedent peasant armies established
  • Some joined the whites
  • mounting resentment of War communism
  • In response the NEP to appeased P (similar to Emanicipation and Stolypins)
• What was the reaction to War communism

  Some peasants

  • kill livestock in protest
  • Burn or destroy grain
• How did Peasants protest collectivisation and why

  refused to cooperate

  • slaughtering large number of cattle and horses

  WHY:

  • Dismantle of the Mir 1930
  • scale and speed of the reform
  • thousands dying
• What evidence is there that peasant ops were successful before 1917?

  Implementaiton of:

  • Zemstva 1864
  • Stolypins reforms 1905
• What laws were created to combat peasant ops?

  • Zemstva 1864
  • Land Captains 1889
  • Duma 1905
  • Stolypins reforms on Land 1905
• During Krushchevs rule was rural unrest stable?

  little rural unrest

  • Agricultural policies were not successful with there being food shortages and need of aid
• When were significant protests during A2 for peasant ops?

  • 1857-59 - resulting in weekly reports from dec of 1857 + Emancipation edict
  • 4 months after the Edict = 647 riots
• When was the Tambov rebellion?

  1920-21

  • largest peasant ops to war communism
  • tens of thousands against the red army
  • CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND MASS EXCUTIONS