Sentence examples for peasant masses from inspiring English sources

Both worlds, ancient and twentieth-century, are stews of slaughter, torture, famine, flood, and, for the peasant masses, brutalizing overwork.

Khmelnytsky became the master of Ukraine, and its peasant masses, many of its townsmen, and even lesser noblemen were among his followers.

To win more army volunteers from the peasant masses, he issued the Manifesto of Połaniec, on May 7, suspending serfdom and reducing in half the existing villein service.

Still, it is hard to see these artifacts without imagining the chasm that separated the peasant masses from the increasingly callous and self-absorbed monarchy.

The emperor and his ministers (members of his personal entourage or former Orleanist politicians) rested their authority on the peasant masses, the business class, the church, and those local notables who were willing to cooperate.

Distasteful to the Polish magnates for its concessions to the hated Cossacks, repugnant to the Cossacks and the peasant masses for its conservative social cast and Polish connection, and a provocation to Moscow, the Treaty of Hadyach was never implemented.

Threatened by mass peasant rebellion, Lenin called a retreat.

Having witnessed America's devastating use of precision weapons in the first Gulf war and in Kosovo, China concluded that it could no longer depend on a mass peasant soldiery.

This "epic", Guevara declared, would be written by the "hungry Indian masses, peasants without land, exploited workers, and progressive masses".

And then there were the illiterate masses, the peasants".

As moderates assumed dominance in the insurgent government (by July) and delayed the enactment of promised peasant reforms, they lost mass peasant support for the rebellion.