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...Donald Gillin Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Donald Gillin Peasant and Communist in Modern China Reflections on the origins of the Communist-led Peasant Movement Before the formation of the Chinese Communist party in 1921, there existed in China no organized or even...

...Lee Patterson Lee Patterson No man his reson herde : Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Aux yeux de l historien, la revolte agraire apparait aussi inseparable du regime seigneurial que, par exemple, de la grande enterprise capitaliste, la greve...

.... This is no small contribution, but rather one which should serve to put Josephus within reach of many who might be put off by Daniels own voluminous autobiography. BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY DAVID C. ROLLER Mau Mau from Within: Autobiography and Analysis of Kenya s Peasant Revolt. By Donald L. Barnett...

...Mariko Asano Tamanoi 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Mariko Asano Tamanoi A Road to ‘‘A Redeemed Mankind The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria Walter Benjamin once wrote, ‘‘Nothing that has...

...Lazar Volin Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXIX APRIL, 1940 Number 2 THE KREMLIN AND THE PEASANTS LAZAR VOLIN N THE SPRING of 1938 the news flashed to the world that the Kremlin had spoken with a voice of thunder about the iniquitous...

... and political concern, this article is interested in the question of what it means to visit the archive of past struggles and past insurgencies. It argues for a critical historical method that foregrounds the agency of the insurgents themselves—the agency of women, slaves, foreigners, the poor and the peasants...

...Forrest Hylton Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I...

... politics of colonialism in the context of Italian Eritrea. The emphasis will be on the period after the demise of a settler colonial project, which came to an abrupt end in the face of peasant resistance and Italian military defeat at the Battle of Adwa in 1896. The rupture of the settler project...

...John MacKay The Russian Revolution, so often monumentalized as a singular event—not least by the Bolsheviks themselves—was an inherently plural happening, involving the disparate actions and aspirations of peasants, workers, national minorities, and many others. Although early Soviet cinema...

...Gordon Wright Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 FRENCH FARMERS IN POLITICS Gordon Wright AT BOTTOM, France is a peasants republic. That, I believe, is the key to understanding the fundamental facts of French politics. So wrote a prominent British analyst in the early years...

..., peasants and artisans. Quality of speech and the locales in which speaking occurs function as one of the ways the fourteenth-century elite identify those who are declasse. John Shirley s case is particularly revelatory. For in this description traces of the material circumstances indicate that all three...

... life in northern Russian villages near Vologda. 2 The fiftieth volume of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (1957) in­ cludes some remarkable data on the class composition of the Soviet population in 1955: workers and employees: 58.3 percent; collectivized (collective farm) peasants...

... for telling stories: in this sentence one may sum up the horizon of his philosophy. Some realists and satirists surpassed him in bluntness or in the presentation of the ridiculous 5 some of the pamphleteers, shocked by the im­ poverished land and pauperized existence of the peasants and hapless fate...

... the importance of the Italian South both for the long economic pull in Italy and for the immediate present with its threat of Communism in the South. Carlo Levi in Christ Stopped At Eboli described southern Italy as without comfort or solace, where the peasant lives out his motion­ 30 The South Atlantic...

... to the Tsarist government was a duty and resistance a deadly sin. The clergy were in many cases flagrantly corrupt and preyed upon the ignorance and super­ stition of the workers and peasants. Since the October Rev­ olution the Communists have been at great pains to expose many of the holy relics of the saints...

... the political situation in Europe after 1918 was such as to render their real program chimerical and since they were not a dynamic group, the Frankovci rapidly lost ground to the Peasant party, the personal creation of the Radic brothers, Stjepan and Ante. This was a logical development, since 80 per cent...

... its art virtually with its bare hands, must satisfy its artistic hunger through primitive means. At the same time, the treasures of artistic culture concentrated in our theaters, museums, aca­ demies, and so on are starting to decompose, since they have no workers or peasants using them. The jaded...

.... By Ferenc Nagy. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Pp. xv, 471. $6.00. Here are two important accounts from countries behind the iron cur­ tain. One is by the former Yugoslav Ambassador in Washington, the other that of a former Hungarian prime minister and leader of the Small­ holders (peasant) party...

... will take some patience. To begin with, it is impossible to focus on popular protest without invoking to some degree its entire history, beginning with the Peasants Revolt of 1381. This is equally true of seventeenthand twentieth-century perspectives. When Sir John Colepepper pre­ pared for Charles I his...

... and territories formerly under Italian rule. 26 In conclusion, the attempt to reverse the Sicilian population model from a scheme of compact settlements to one of isolated settlers scattered across a well-surveilled countryside was part of the same colonial logic that sought to displace Italian peasants...