In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...

Some Russian experts believe that ... caused the peasants to grumble and become alienated from the revolution. In 1921 peasants in Krondstadt and Tambov rose in rebellion, partly because of ...

LONDON, Oct. 28 -- The ignorance and religious fanaticism of the Russian peasantry, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times, are illustrated by the peasants' almost blasphemous ...

He demanded that the peasants should themselves organize ... which alone could sustain the Russian revolution, was at hand. He was wrong.

The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...

Over three-quarters of the Russian population were unhappy with their position in the Empire. Peasants and workers alike suffered horrendous living and working conditions and hence posed a threat ...

Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, ...

Her "spiritual adviser" was the Siberian mystic Grigory Rasputin, a Russian peasant whose pursuit of ... who many felt were working against the revolution. Despite being almost powerless against ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

Russian peasants were different from other European ... Make two lists: one with the main events and the effects of the February Revolution and the other with the main events and effects of ...