The Russian Peasantry, Vol. 1: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Russian Peasantry, Vol. 1: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion
Our peasants have in fact something unusual about them. They have not lived upon the crumbs of intellectual food which have fallen from the tables of their cultured brethren. Their popular morals, their social aims, and their reli gion are all their own, and differ greatly from those prevailing with the upper classes.
For the present generation the study of popular life has acquired an exceptional interest and importance, as the manifold influences of the new times have wrought a general downfall of the very basis of rural life. Russian peasants are passing through an actual crisis - economical, social, and religious - and the future of our country depends upon its solution.
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