Sentence examples for productive peasantry from inspiring English sources

Land reform gave birth to a productive peasantry, the driving force behind the green revolution, but it is now thwarting consolidation of land holdings that have become too fragmented.

They financed that war, which was ultimately unsuccessful, through harsh taxation of the only productive element in the kingdom namely, its impoverished peasantry.

If Peasantry, or 'Light!

To the 13th-century peasantry.

An individual peasantry no longer existed.

The peasantry, however, retained the old language.

It holds that the party should represent "advanced productive forces, advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people" -- implying that the party can represent entrepreneurs as well as its traditional constituents, the working class and the peasantry.

More productive.

The servile status of the peasantry increased.

Very productive.

The lot of the peasantry improved.