Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia ...

ALTHOUGH some 20 million Soviet citizens moved from the country to the city between 1929 and 1939, as part of the government’s program of rapid industrialization, Russia is still predominantly an ...

Five hundred years ago, peasants in Central Europe revolted against their overlords. Inspired by the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther’s confrontation with church hierarchy, peasants staged an ...

The population of the great cordillera of the Andes, which stretches 4,500 miles from Colombia to the southern tip of Chile, consists of some 15 million Indians and a handful of descendants of the ...

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. By Fintan O’Toole Fintan O’Toole is the author of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History ...