...This chapter discusses various aspects of village life pertaining to daily existence. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views about alcohol consumption, education, the youth, women, religion, and disorder. Communist Party and Brest Litovsk Treaty Gorky Maxim Novaia...

...This chapter, which discusses various aspects of village life pertaining to the exercise of political power at the local level, presents letters written by the peasantry expressing their views about the Lenin cult, the Bolshevik rural policy, and conceptions of authority. Libedinsky Yury A Week...

..., the island community, as well as the kind of rural hamlet in which Kasia and Piotr Walkowiak grew up. It dominates the life of peasants everywhere. The chapter considers a number of themes that are common in village life everywhere, including an overarching sense of unity, niche, heritage, surveillance...