To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French ...

Lenin, even prior to 1905, gave expression to the peculiar character of the Russian revolution in the formula “the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.” This formula ...

A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and ...

Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics Hanna Batatu In this book, the distinguished scholar Hanna Batatu presents a comprehensive analysis of the recent ...

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 ...

The persistence of peasantry in the Global South and imperialism’s necessity to integrate it into its accumulation network has given birth to a new agrarian question. This question centers around ...

In commemorating peasant month, a review of the peasant movement’s history is a must, to understand its relevance and context ...