Not all peasants were loyal or religious as many supported the opposition, the Social Revolutionaries. Their main discontent was over land - they resented the amount of land owned by the aristocracy, the Church and the Tsar. They also hated the conditions they had to live in and work. An example of their horrible conditions was that the life expectancy for an average peasant farmer was only forty years old. Most of the peasants wanted change and the way they could do was to get the Tsar out and they could achieve that through the Social Revolutionaries and other opposition parties.
Chapter 6: “The Peasants Purges” This chapter is about how Joseph turns the country to collectivization system. A. Millions were kicked off their farms. B. His wife was angry with him because he was treating the peasant farmers wrong.
The author of the Grapes of Wrath viewed that property was taken away from farmers because of the struggle between the individuals and the big corporations. Steinbeck’s purpose was to catch the attention of the people with what was going on in that time. For this purpose, he writes about the big business and its effects on the individuals. For Steinbeck, corporations as well capitalism were very harsh with the farmers. In the novel, the author states: "If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him.
Higgs emphasized on the exploitation of farmers by mortgagers, freight owners and monopolists as the major cause of farm protests and the subsequent formation of agrarian parties1. However, other scholars like Robert McGuire have subjected the complaints of farmers to statistical testing, founding each claim inconsistent to some extent with the available evidence about the terms of trade 2. This paper will assess the actual causes of agrarian unrest and the formation of agrarian parties, paying particular attention to the Populist Party. John D. Hicks has summarized the complaints of the farmers. First, farmers claimed that farm prices were falling and, as a consequence, so were their incomes.
In Animal Farm, the author, George Orwell, shows how “Absolute power corrupts absolutely!” For instance, the first sign of corruption is shown by Farmer Jones ill treatment of the animals. He is a drunken man whose life is poorly living. He works his animals to the last pulp, whips them for the fun of it because in his mind he is the one in charge and who they must obey and he feeds them the minimum rations of food. Farmer Jones is neither considerate nor passionate for his animals and it is noticed that he only tends to the animals because of the profit he is receiving. The first thing he does is drink whiskey and polishes bottle after bottle then he attempts to tend to the care of his animals which is performed poorly.
A government policy of enclosure was implemented, which greatly upset traditional, rural societies. Tenant farmers would now only employ labourers to do short term work on the farms, for jobs such as hedging or ditching. There was now a surplus of labourer due to deflation after the French wars, a population increase alongside a non-agricultural employment decrease, and the development of agricultural machinery. It is easy to see why people protested against this, many men were jobless and unable to feed their families, and the little work there was was sparse and low paid. It was also due to political reasons that people protested during the Swing Riots.
Peasants were very dissatisfied with their living conditions and how land was divided up, although serfdom had been destroyed by the Emancipation act of 1861 peasants still had to pay for the land they received, where they believed they should receive better quality land for no cost, as a result of these factors famine became a normal condition. Working conditions and low pay was also the norm with the taxation burden and low profits created much resentment to the tsarist regime that had been in place for many generations. With this resentment, poor conditions, increasing land shortage and famine; peasant outbreaks increased with major strikes and the attack on government property and landowners land in 1891- 92, 1897, 1898 and 1901. Furthermore the conditions for the urban workers and peasants worsened, the famines had led to shortage and more distress in the countryside and the industrial towns, with poorly ventilated factories and yet again poor pay and long hours. With unions being illegal, economic depression struck Russia between 1899 and 1903 with high levels of unemployment.This resentment and unrest was also shared by the middle class, with the tsar excluding them from sharing in government wealth and therefore offering them little
The economic policy known as collectivisation would result in the people of Russia such as farmers and peasants, losing their land and having to sell their produce to the state for low prices which was surely not enough for the farmers and peasants to look after their families especially with the fact that most of them did not have a lot of money. Peasants had to work harder for lower wages in order to create capital. So basically the poorest in the country were making all the sacrifices for the country as a whole. Under horrific and horrendous working conditions, the five year plan was enforced by staling with terror and brutality. Workers who did not comply with what Stalin and the state required were sent to inhumane labour camps.
Recently Peru has been hit by a wave of social conflict an protest, much of it focused on the mining sector. The problems reflect the discord of the people from rural sectors- where most of the mining companies are set up-with mining companies because of the environmental effects and destruction of its properties that they cause. Even in the first stage of mining which is the stage of exploration; identity possible minerals deposits. Mining machines have to drill the underground and therefore causing the damage of the soil. Plants and fruits cannot growth there anymore and seeds are destroyed which causes affects in the agriculture and the collection of food; an important economic activity for the rural settlers.
He sees himself as the superior man to all the other people, with a mentality like that he finds that he cannot relate to anyone, or that no one is to his level. As a person, he has several problems, he seems to be an individual that sees other people as tools and uses them for his own personal gain/needs. After he commits the murders we see that he is overthrown by the immense feelings of guilt. When offered help or consolation Ralskanikov pushes away the people who are trying to help him. Not only that but we may also take into consideration that Ralskanikov is in a state of ultimate poverty, resorting to hiding from his landlady to avoid the topic of payment, that adds fuel to his alienation.