W.S. Lilly in The Fortnightly Review. The English peasantry, once deemed the finest in the World, have left the soil of England. They have flocked to the great cities. Our villages are half populated.

Lenin, even prior to 1905, gave expression to the peculiar character of the Russian revolution in the formula “the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.” This formula ...

Over three-quarters of the Russian population were unhappy with their position in the Empire. Peasants and workers alike suffered horrendous living and working conditions and hence posed a threat ...