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.
1. 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.

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	Created by Mairin Heimbuch over 8 years ago