Peasantry

The peasantry is the rural proletariat, the portion of the proletariat which lives outside urban areas.

External links and further reading

 * "The Proletariat and the Peasantry" Vladimir Lenin, Vperyod, No. 11, March 23 (10), 1905, from Lenin Collected Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962, Moscow, Volume 8, pages 231-236, translated by Bernard Isaacs and The Late Isidor Lasker, Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2003)