the peasantry

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• the peasantry — all the peasants living in an area or country He tried to organize the peasantry for a revolt. the Russian peasantry • • • Main Entry: ↑peasantry …   Useful english dictionary

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• Peasantry —    Karl Marx did not accord the same significance to the peasantry as he did to the proletariat. The former he saw as essentially a doomed class that would be swept aside by capitalism, while the proletariat represented the agent of revolution… …   Historical dictionary of Marxism

• peasantry — peasants, peasantry The word ‘peasant’ is a typical example of the confusion of the common use of a word with its sociological definition. Probably the common use, in this case, is more correct. People always know whether or not a person is a… …   Dictionary of sociology

• peasantry — [[t]pe̱z(ə)ntri[/t]] N SING COLL: also no det, usu the N You can refer to all the peasants in a particular country as the peasantry. The Russian peasantry stood on the brink of disappearance …   English dictionary

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