Peasant Life.
How did peasants live? Read excerpts from Mary Matossian's article, "The Peasant Way of Life" and find out! Russian peasants lived a simple agrarian way of life into the early 20C, and the way of life of many people in rural Russia still has aspects of these traditional ways.
Read the following pages: 1-3, 8 - 20 (starting with the section "The Economic Base"). Peasant Way of Life.pdf Download Peasant Way of Life.pdf