Sentence examples for peasant land from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gogoi, whose parents were sharecroppers, has also worked as an activist for peasant land rights.

"On the south edge of the city there used to be only acres and acres of peasant land on the opposite side of the river," he said.

Russia, they believed, was immune to capitalism, owing to the circumstances of joint ownership of peasant land by the village commune.

None of them, however, was able to cope adequately with the major problems afflicting the country: peasant land seizures, nationalist independence movements in non-Russian areas, and the collapse of army morale at the front.

The state compensated for the loss of income from former crown lands by increasing taxes on the value of peasant land, though the nobles still paid the taxes for the peasants on their estates.

Influenced by the anarchist communist writings of Prince Peter Kropotkin, Zapata was a warrior for peasant land rights; his Plan de Ayala is the historical template for democratic land ownership.

Some of the victims opposed a coup in 2009—a new government was elected in November or backed peasant land-reform movements.

Most states limit peasant lands eligible for registration to homesteads.

Such factors as the outbreak of plague in the mid-14th century, the expropriation of peasant lands, and the migration of young people from farms to towns led to a shortage of labour and a drop in agricultural production.

After graduating from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in 1962, Lucio Cabañas worked as a teacher and then became active in peasant land-rights struggles in Guerrero.

The Normans retained and reinforced the manorial system with its division between demesne and peasant lands paid for in agricultural labour.