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To What Extent Do The Sources Agree That Russian Government Policy On Agriculture Consistently Failed And That Peasants Resisted It Under Both Tsarist And Communist Rule?
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Zoë Aukim To What Extent Do The Sources Agree That Russian Government Policy On Agriculture Consistently Failed And That Peasants Resisted It Under Both Tsarist And Communist Rule? There is evidence of failure and peasant resistance in most sources, however not all, and also evidence of success and support in some cases. Failure mainly seems to be consistent over time but while some peasants resisted not all did. Source1 shows resistance because 'most of the liberated serfs' resented the emancipation. The existence of recalcitrant peasants points to further peasant resistance. This appears to be reliable because it was written after the end of Communism so Hingley would have had access to Russian archives. It is useful because it shows that policy failed from the beginning however it generalises the peasants into one category and doesn't show that some peasants benefited. In source2(a) Stolypin indicates resistance by calling some the 'needy and the drunken'. These...
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