Thus, Khmelnytsky was not only praised for re-unifying Ukraine with Russia, but also for organizing the class struggle of oppressed Ukrainian peasants against Polish exploiters.
While enjoying themselves at their courts, they left it to the Jewish leaseholders and collectors to become objects of hatred to the oppressed and long-suffering peasants.
According to Leo Waibel, these German immigrants were mainly "oppressed peasants and former soldiers of the army of Napoleon."
If it was," the fellow went on, "a heavy blow against op- pression and for the liberty of the oppressed peasants and workers of the world was struck there not long ago.
It was through this paper that he waged his famous fights for the oppressed peasants of Rae Bareli, the workers of the Kanpur mills and the downtrodden people of Indian states.
Some theoreticians applied Marxist analysis and saw pogroms as a manifestation of the class struggle between oppressed peasants and oppressive Jewish petite bourgeoisie.
In his next book, "Raised From the Floor," a neo-realistic story of oppressed peasants struggling for land, he addressed what would prove to be an equally important question: how was he going to write?
Riding eastward, Mathurin befriends a group of oppressed peasants before rejoining the caravan as it approaches Paris.
The orchestra was forced to go into hiding, performing in secret, with the assistance of oppressed peasants during the era.
Some had been the oppressed peasants in the German-speaking imperialist empires.