English Translation

23a -4 - B) 1st part: The mentality of the Soviet Russians. ===== 3$3=3 ====== 3=33 ====== I. The Russian peasantry. a) The Stoly- According to the structure of his country, the Russi-Pin re-form in 1905 was always an agricultural people. Eighty per cent of his population were peasants. After the abolition of serfdom in 1861, land was made available to the peasants, but this was not their property. Farmers took the best parts of the land and worked them as far as the support was necessary for their livelihood. Moreover, they were distrustful of the state that the country under consideration could be taken from them again in favour of the feudal class supporting the state. Moreover, the peasants were protected and deprived of rights in the then law. Only by the discontent of the peasants could the revolution take such proportions in 1905, all the more so since the army consisted of peasant sons to 8/10 of its stock. The then Prime Minister, S t o l y p i n, was motivated by the fact that he was first forced to abolish the flogging penalty for the construction work and to introduce a new land reform after which farmers were given the opportunity to acquire the land they were working on as their property.