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Weixing Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Village Elections in China: Cooperation between the State and the Peasantry
Journal of Chinese Political Science, 1999Co-Authors: Weixing ChenAbstract:Village elections, as a policy response to developmental problems in rural China in the 1980s, were not designed to promote democracy in China. The process of village elections, however, has served as a new form of cooperation between the state and the Peasantry over the last decade. To understand why an authoritarian regime introduced an electoral process to its countryside and why this electoral process of village elections has served as a new form of cooperation between the state and the Peasantry over the last decade, we should try to understand where the congruence between the state and the Peasantry was in this form of cooperation, what the role of the state was in this process, and what the implications of this electoral process for democracy were in China. The process of village elections might eventually have a benign result that was not originally envisioned by its sponsor, but little progress has been made in that direction over the last decade. Putting village elections in such perspective, this paper examines the economic, political and democratic dimensions of this electoral process of village elections as a new form of cooperation between the state and the Peasantry.
Terry Cox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The new history of the Russian Peasantry
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2002Co-Authors: Terry CoxAbstract:Books reviewed in this article: Stephen Frank, Crime, Cultural Conflict and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 Judith Pallot, Land Reform in Russia 1906–1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation Yanni Kotsonis, Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861–1914 David Moon, The Russian Peasantry 1600–1930: The World the Peasants Made Judith Pallot (ed.), Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861–1930 Since the end of the 1970s, there has been an upsurge in writing on the Russian Peasantry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and some of the most recent examples are discussed here. The work is characterized by its richness of new information and an extension of scholarship into new aspects of peasant economy, society and culture of the period. Much of this new work avoids detailed theorizing, presenting itself as a more grounded and complex understanding than provided by earlier, ‘ideologically driven’ Marxist and neo–populist approaches, while at the same time drawing on concepts introduced by J.C. Scott and others. This essay offers an account of this body of research and explores its implications for an understanding of the period in terms of class analysis and capitalist development.
Nicholas Hall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gareth Jones, the Soviet Peasantry and the ‘Real Russia’, 1930–1933
Russian Journal of Communication, 2016Co-Authors: Nicholas HallAbstract:ABSTRACTThis article explores how the British journalist Gareth Jones sought a particular truth of events during collectivisation in the Soviet Union by examining the experiences of the Soviet Peasantry. His conclusions ran counter to certain narratives of Soviet progress that ignored or diminished the importance of collectivisation’s costs to the Peasantry. Jones described to his readers what he considered to be the ‘Real Russia’, a place found beyond a veil of deception, which is referred to here by the term ‘Potemkinism’ (meaning the regime-managed representation of the Soviet Union to external and internal audiences), and clashed with those who thought his reports to be false. In looking at Jones’s example, we can consider how the Peasantry appeared to a foreigner in their midst at a time of intense social stress, and in particular how certain observers framed their understandings of Soviet affairs.
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gareth jones the soviet Peasantry and the real russia 1930 1933
The Russian Journal of Communication, 2016Co-Authors: Nicholas HallAbstract:ABSTRACTThis article explores how the British journalist Gareth Jones sought a particular truth of events during collectivisation in the Soviet Union by examining the experiences of the Soviet Peasantry. His conclusions ran counter to certain narratives of Soviet progress that ignored or diminished the importance of collectivisation’s costs to the Peasantry. Jones described to his readers what he considered to be the ‘Real Russia’, a place found beyond a veil of deception, which is referred to here by the term ‘Potemkinism’ (meaning the regime-managed representation of the Soviet Union to external and internal audiences), and clashed with those who thought his reports to be false. In looking at Jones’s example, we can consider how the Peasantry appeared to a foreigner in their midst at a time of intense social stress, and in particular how certain observers framed their understandings of Soviet affairs.
Manjeet Singh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interpreting Peasantry of Early Medieval Northern India
International Journal of Research, 2017Co-Authors: Manjeet SinghAbstract:When it comes to the writing of economic history of early medieval northern India, it is inevitable to come across word ‘peasant’, a thousand times, if not more, to do justice with the attributes, constituting a firm foundation upon which rests the massive structure of acquainted past, that we more precisely identify with history. History in itself is a drab discipline, which otherwise, appealing to not more a dozen of scholars, draws the attention of million when served in a savoury platter. Early medieval Indian economy was necessarily agrarian in nature, therefore making the role of Peasantry fundamental to the theme of our research. The article would discuss at length the other aspects of Peasantry, but what concerns us the most is the study of impact that early medieval trends of donating lands to the different kind of donees had on the Peasantry. Attempts shall be made to discover the all aspects of Peasantry reflected in the land grants. Defining Peasantry, peasant in particular as the pivotal role player in Peasantry, is more than challenging a risky affair which involves the sentiments of millions even today.
Adam David Morton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global capitalism and the Peasantry in Mexico: The recomposition of class struggle
The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2007Co-Authors: Adam David MortonAbstract:Taking its cue from debates on‘the death of the Peasantry’ in Latin America, this article attempts to focus on the constitution, transformation and recomposition of peasantries within the contemporary dynamics of neoliberalism. It does so by tracing the historically uneven and combined development of capital accumulation in Mexico and how this has impacted on the regional conditions of state formation in Chiapas, which has shaped the novel form of resistance articulated by the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (ezln). The article explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of changes to production relations that have transformed the Peasantry in Chiapas, Mexico. As a result, the thesis about the inevitable disappearance of the Peasantry is challenged to assert the relevance of renewed conditions of class struggle embodied in the novel and purposeful agency of the ezln. It is argued that the recomposition of class struggle and resistance reflected in the resurgence of peasant movements such a...