Ukrainian peasants' sense of their ethnic identity was poorly developed.
Russian was viewed by the Ukrainian peasants moving into the cities as the more urban and prestigious language.
It advocated socialism, increased rights for Ukrainian peasants, and secularism.
In order to conciliate the Ukrainian peasants, the agrarian policy of the Party should not be implemented.
It mobilized Ukrainian peasants on a large scale, who were later given Polish properties.
The waitstaff may look like Ukrainian peasants, but they speak English and are eager to please.
Such nobles had little contact with Ukrainian peasants and thus no means to be assimilated by them.
They enjoyed their own court system and unlike Ukrainian peasants were not under the authority of the Polish landlords.
Although they spoke the same language as the Ukrainian peasants, they maintained their own particular traditions.
"But why kill a Ukrainian peasant--- if in fact he was that?"