He left the factory world at 22, changed by the experience of grassroots peasantry and poverty.
An American had never had such access to the deepest thoughts of the Chinese peasantry.
This week the peasantry was making trouble again, but at the opposite end of the country.
He marched the students off to do farm work in the villages, supervised by China's no-nonsense peasantry.
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Yesterday, Nick Denton approached the peasantry with his usual, ahem, thoroughness of thought.
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Reports are emerging that the security services and military-linked pro-Mubarak landlords coerced many of the Delta peasantry to vote for Shafik.
But the party remains overly fearful of privatising farmland, partly for atavistic fears of a destitute peasantry, and partly for ideological reasons.
The immediate purpose of the repeal of the Corn Laws was to help the Irish peasantry caught in the grip of the potato famine.
During the Crusades, the nobility and peasantry of Europe abruptly crossed the known world and fought for places they had only ever read about.
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Before WWI and the 1917 Communist coup, signs of a vibrant civil society in Russia, including an independent judiciary and a landowning peasantry, had begun to emerge.
Or as is increasingly the case in my native UK, the insistence that the threat of climate change means we should all return to being medieval peasantry.
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That peasants (and since Neolithic times the vast majority of humanity has been peasantry) had it worse than hunter-gatherers has been the accepted view of archaeologists for more than a generation.
Zhukov's tale is, in many ways, typical of his times from the relative rags of the educated pre-revolutionary Russian peasantry to the riches of state service, party membership and an illustrious military career.
The Grimms grew up in the febrile atmosphere of German Romanticism, which involved intense nationalism and, in support of that, a fascination with the supposedly deep, pre-rational culture of the German peasantry, the Volk.
But the most basic fact of global political economy over the past 40 years has been the move from destitute peasantry into the middle class of a couple of billion of our fellow human beings.
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His sympathies, born of his childhood experiences among the peasantry in northern France during the first world war, were always with the underdog, and he did not spare the colonial authorities for their role in Africa's misfortunes.
From a wealthy Normandy family (a photograph of the family chateau unapologetically decorated his office wall in Brussels), Mr Lamy may not share Mr Delors's sentimental affection for the peasantry, but his political antennae are just as sharp.
There, an addiction to artificially priced grain, wrong-headed collectivization methods in the late 1950s and economic reforms that have generally favored the cities over the countryside have conspired to keep the peasantry poor and under the thumb of self-serving cadres.
Roberts' gowns include a vermilion peacock creation so ornate it requires its own tax levy on the hard-pressed peasantry -- but Ishioka's genius is equally well displayed in the perfectly chosen headwear that goes a long way to distinguishing the personalities of the film's seven dwarfs.
The problem in France was that the king did not feel strong enough to challenge the legal rights of the aristocracy, but both were happy to deny the rule of law to the peasantry and the rising commercial classes who bore the full brunt of meeting the king's need for money to fight wars, through taxation.
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