All Jackdaws Peck Peasant Head»: How Repr esented Th e Ura l Peasants Alternative Scenar ios Of Th e Russian Revolution?

Abstract

The article describes the main trends in relation of peasants to the successive
regimes, peasant verbal assessment of the new rulers, peasant attempts to adapt
to their needs «urban» religious and secular institutions, and shares the peasant
protest against the unjust decision «of the food problem». Ural example favors
the version according to which the peasants had their own vision of the future of
the revolution. Peasant optics was set to autonomy of the peasant world from any
outside interference.