The Class Divide in the Rural Proletariat

The arrival of marxism in russia really helped shed a light on this, though i should note for the record that pyoter kicho doen had already pointed out to everyone that there was a big difference between rich peasants and poor peasants. The realities of post emancipation landownership and the ariv of marxus theory combined to make the class distinction out in the rural areas more obvious. Both types of peasants would be united in the first democratic revolution aimed at tearing down the last vestiges of mediaeval privilege. Rich peasants and poor peasant alike had an interest in throwing off the shackles of the old aristocracy. This would then usher in a period of agrarian capitalism which would