The causes and features of the manifestation of violent forms of the agrarian movement on the eve of the First Russian Revolution (based on the materials of the Saratov province)

Abstract

The article examines the violent forms of the agrarian movement of late Imperial Russia as the most dangerous and destructive ways of peasant protest in socio-political, legal and economic terms. Using the example of the Saratov province, the author identifies the causes, motivations and delinquent methods of expressing various illegal excesses in the peasant environment. The main content of the study is the analysis of violent forms of the agrarian movement in Russia at the beginning of the XX century, as varieties of agrarian terror. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the specifics of the agrarian movement on the eve of the First Russian Revolution in the whole country, and in the Saratov province, in particular, were characterized by an escalation of extreme forms of violent actions of peasants against landowners. 

Keywords

• agrarian terror
• peasant movement
• violence
• protest
• escalation