How To Use peasantry In A Sentence
- Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
- In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
- The remainder was the rural and generally poor peasantry. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
- An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
- The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
- Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
- After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
- Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
- Cumberland curs burst out from backs of cottages and barked like other curs, and the Cumberland peasantry stared after the dog-cart amazedly, as long as it was in sight, like the rest of their race. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
- The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry.
