Selling/ differentiation
There is no adequate factual evidence, moreover, to substantiate the widely accepted view that the movement for severance from the commune and enclosures drew its main support from the very rich and the very poor peasants, the former because they wished to protect their holdings against possible encroachments by the commune, and the latter because they intended to sell their plots and start anew elsewhere or
enter some pursuit other than farming. It would seem, however, that the process of differentiation within the peasantry, as an economic group, made some advance as a consequence of large sales of allotment
land after 1905.
Could you please intepret the bolded in other words. Does it mean that there appeared more poor and more rich peasants, without the middle class? What is sale of allotment land? Does it mean poor peasants selling their land?
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Vladv Could you please intepret the bolded in other words. Does it mean that there appeared more poor and more rich peasants, without the middle class? Bear in mind that I know nothing about the Russia of that day.
- Vladv Could you please intepret the bolded in other words.
- Does it mean that there appeared more poor and more rich peasants, without the middle class?
- Bear in mind that I know nothing about the Russia of that day.
- I can only tell you what the words on the page seem to mean, and the middle class is not mentioned.
- In fact, I would say that a peasantry cannot contain a middle class by definition.
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VladvCould you please intepret the bolded in other words. Does it mean that there appeared more poor and more rich peasants, without the middle class?
Bear in mind that I know nothing about the Russia of that day. I can only tell you what the words on the page seem to mean, and the middle class is not mentioned. In fact, I would say that a peasantry cannot
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