Sentence examples for peasantry by from inspiring English sources

As the exploitation of the peasantry by the Ch'oe regime grew more severe, however, the people became more estranged.

Soviet help, however, failed to arrive, and Kun alienated the peasantry by nationalizing Hungary's estates rather than dividing them among the peasants.

Moreover, Bulgaria was beset by Mongol attacks from the north and by internal upheavals brought on by the growing burdens placed on the peasantry by the powerful nobles.

The clearest evidence of the Reformation's impact on the shaping of what some modern scholars call "the revolution of the common man" are the Twelve Articles drawn up for the Swabian peasantry by an Evangelical cleric and associate of Zwingli's.

As minister of finance (1881 87), he implemented reforms aimed at modernizing the Russian economy, notably tax law changes estimated to have reduced the tax burden on the peasantry by one-fourth.

There was discussion of a reform of towns (including a Jewish reform) and changes in the status of the peasantry by extending to them rights and representation as well as state protection.

The modern Chinese nation-state was built in the 20th century by the peasantry led by the intelligentsia.

In the flux of social and economic life in the 15th and 16th centuries, three interconnected processes may be observed: a steady economic growth, mainly from colonization and trade; an expansion in the power of the central government; and the encroachment of the nobility upon the lands previously held by the free peasantry, accompanied by the reduction of the bulk of the peasantry to serf status.

The underprivileged peasantry, stimulated by a general political atmosphere in which subordinates rose against superiors, staged rebellions across the country over a period of 30 years.

It was designed for a growing class of free peasantry, supplemented by the influx of Slavic peoples into the empire, that became a dominant social class in later centuries.

The most important change would allow China's peasantry, which by official count includes about 800 million people, to sell land-use contracts to other farmers or to agricultural companies.