impoverished peasantry

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• peasantry — noun a) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands. 1920 They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by… …   Wiktionary

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• Bretonnia — s. BackgroundThe Land of Bretonnia is a feudal, traditional society where the peasants serve the knights in return for protection, while the knights are bound to militarily serve their lords in return for certain rights and titles. At the top of… …   Wikipedia

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• Recabarren, Luis Emilio — (1876–1924)    Chilean theorist, activist and politician Luis Emilio Recabarren left an indelible mark on the Latin American workers’ movement. Having joined the Partido Democrático in 1894, he set about radicalizing the impoverished peasantry of …   Historical dictionary of Marxism

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