“There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.” PovertyRussiaPeasantsPloughing Book:A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 Source: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
“Only a few miles from any city centre one would find oneself already in the backwoods, where there were bandits living in the forests, where roads turned into muddy bogs in spring, and where the external signs of life in the remote hamlets had remained essentially unchanged since the Middle Ages. Yet, despite living so close to the peasants, the educated classes of the cities knew next to nothing about their world. It was as exotic and alien to them as the natives of Africa were to their distant colonial rulers.” RussiaPeasants Book:A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 Source: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
