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Sources of Leadership in the Yugoslav Revolution: A Local-Level Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Bette S. Denich
Bette S. Denich
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Barnard College, Columbia University
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‘Peasant revolution’ is an anomalous concept. The oppressed in past class societies have been predominantly peasant,1 and this situation continues in the contemporary world, if the definition of ‘peasant’ includes the dependent agricultural producers of the Third World. However, the distinction between humanistic sympathies and political realities led Marx, and subsequent theorists, to a negative view of the capacity of peasants to carry out successful revolutions. According to this reasoning, the parochialism of peasant life precludes the scope of comprehension, organization, and program required to overthrow the existing class structure. These limitations have led, over and over, to abortive revolts, to the impossibility of purely peasant revolution.

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Peasants and Political Mobilization Part II: The Balkans
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 64 - 84
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1976

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