Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Life For Peasants Sucks
- Women have to work all day and then do house work when they come home.
- Each family received scattered strips of land instead of an individual plot to farm.
- The mir was part of the government that controlled the peasants.
- Women have lower status and only men could inherit part of family land.
- When a boy became a soldier his family mourned him as if he died.
- Middle class parents as well as those of novelty arrange marriages for their children based on their property.
- Among poor peasants property was not important because most peasants had none.
- A typical peasant family lived in a small wooden house.
- Peasants ate just a few basic foods in their whole lives.