ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid order of a two-class structure and replace it with a more democratic society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|150 pages
France: Peasant Revolts
part Two|80 pages
Russia: The Peasants in the Revolts of the “Time of Troubles” and in the Anabasis of Stenka Razin
part Three|72 pages
China: The Peasants in Some Revolts Toward the End of the Ming Dynasty
part |46 pages
Conclusion