A major land reform in the late 1940s and early 1950s spread ownership of land to the rural peasantry.

Turkmen can be divided into various social classes including the urban intelligentsia and workers whose role in society is different from that of the rural peasantry.

Town dwellers were more likely to support the Revolution in the Vendée, but support among the rural peasantry was not unknown.

The Southern Party was more reluctant to endorse terrorism and wanted to organise the rural peasantry.

These working poor are more ambitious and angry than any rural peasantry.

Shorn of urban support, the guerrillas have fallen back on their original power base, Colombia's rural peasantry.

There was an instituted mandatory conscription of the rural peasantry into the Red Army.

He believed that revolution in the Third World would come about through an alliance of the proletarians with the rural peasantry.

The increasing number of these freed laborers preferring to stay in the colony gave rise to a new class of rural Indian peasantry.

The power of the landowners over the rural peasantry increased during his presidency.