peasant uprising
Rural class revolt
A peasant uprising is a revolt by agricultural laborers against landowners, nobles, or governing authorities.
These rebellions typically arise from oppressive taxation, land seizures, or feudal exploitation: The peasant uprising spread across three provinces before being crushed.
The term evokes historical revolts but applies to modern agrarian rebellions as well.
- protest marchesOrganized walking demonstrations
- angry mobHostile crowd seeking retribution
- land reformRedistributing agricultural holdings
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
- feudal lordLand-granting medieval ruler
debt bondage · aristocracy · guerrilla warfare · agrarian economy · class struggle · rural poverty · taxation without representation · tax revolt · enclosure movement · sabotage · bread riots · monarchy · famine · armed resistance · Haitian Revolution · petitions · exploitation · inequality
- Vendee WarsChouannerie, blue army, Nantes, Loire, memorial sites
- peasantryserfs, tenant farmers, villagers, common folk, laborers
- rebellionrevolt, rebel, mutiny, insurgency, insurrection
- peasant revoltsbread riot
- Revolutionary MovementsMaoism, guerrilla warfare, armed struggle, class struggle, manifesto
- medieval warfareknights, siege warfare, castle, castle siege, siege
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Overthrow by regime insiders
military coup · court intrigue · dynastic succession · junta · putsch
peasant uprisinggovernment crackdown
Official forceful suppression campaign
royal decree · martial law · counterrevolution · suppression · serfdom
peasant uprisingcivil order
Maintained societal stability
political stability · status quo · docility · acquiescence · social harmony
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