Toward a Technique for Studying the Prigovor Movement and its Role in the Struggle of the Peasantry in 1905-1907 (On Materials from Samara Province)

Abstract

Despite the existence of a rather large number of works devoted to the peasant movement in Russia during the Revolution of 1905-07, it continues to be the object of close attention by Soviet historians. The reason for this unflagging interest by scholars in the problem in question is entirely understandable, for the agrarian-peasant question was fundamental in the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1905-07, when, as V. I. Lenin observed, the peasant masses were pulled into the arena of more or less independent historical action. (1)