Russian peasants used this ‘superfood’ as a popular remedy for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, heart, liver, and kidney diseases. 4.

Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the ...

Russia’s peasant life was destroyed during the rise of the Soviet Union, literally covered over with water and dirt. But some, like Anor Tukaeva, are doing the hard work of bringing that history ...

"OH thou great All-Russian Sphinx, it is not easy to be thy Oedipus." Thus Ivan Turgeniev apostrophized the Russian peasant. And a sphinx the peasant has been, even since the educated classes of the ...

For a solid part of Russian history – starting from the mid-17th century, and until the abolition of serfdom in 1861 – peasants were tied to their land. They could also be bought and sold ...

Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power.

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