Rural Working Conditions Flashcards
Tsars [1855-1917]
Rural Working Conditions
Overall rural conditions never got better and they just were means to feed the workers
Under tsars
peasants could control
How long they worked and how much and what they produced
The only restrictions were by the Mir
Who got then after emancipation to farm in rotational strip farms
until Stolopyn allowed peasants to leave and keep their own share of land preferably alongside there other areas of land and do consolidation farming
Peasants motivation for over production meaning that there would be more food than what everybody would need in Russia and therefore not be a famine
was to feed the family
and Pay debt of the Redemption payments after emancipation which was for 49 years
After the 1905 Revolution TSAR-peasant relationships bettered with stylopin’s policies such as:
allowing for consolidation farms and leaving the mir
allowing peasant land banks 2 be cheap and have unused/bad state/nobel land for sale
allow people to inherit the own land
and ending Land redistribution
Prov Gov [Feb-Oct 1917]
Rural Working Conditions
Peasants simply worked on their farms as they had done before
nothing changed as the constituent assembly wasn’t established
if anything the peasant simply gained More Land to work on as they took it from the Nobles
Lenin [1917-24]
Rural Working Conditions
1920s Rabkirn
Just workers but also peasant inspectors
meaning that they would come around and inspect the peasants work and make sure they are not violating any laws or policies and that they are doing it correctly
Under communism the central government would control how and how much and what the peasants produced on their farms
Narkomprod were the grain requisitioning squadrons and they were mainly consisting of poorer peasants who would collect Kulaks grain in an attempt to start a class War (didnt work)
Therefore occasionally the peasants would need to go and do that
The conditions of this line of work were mainly the same as they were still on farms
In 1921 typhus and cholera kills 3 million people
the government doesn’t really do anything about it though because it’s only the peasants
This is similar to a 1911 where the St Petersburg suicide system was built as in 1910 100,000 died of colour of air however this was on a far greater scale in the countryside probably
Stalin [1929-53]
Rural Working Conditions
Under stalin
and there were new agricultural techniques created and technology to increase the productivity of the peasants
such as tractors
this resulted in the working conditions in rural areas becoming much better with this new technology and tractors
