Name: Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses
Released: 2024-04-23

A History of the European Rural Life

S1 · E4 — Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses

S1:E4 · Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses

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4 episodes in this season

The Beginning / The Lords, and Those Who Dig

56 min

Rebellion and War / Revolutions

55 min

Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant

55 min

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A History of the European Rural Life

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Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Apr 23, 2024

In the 19th century, Europe's farmers were finally free. But the Industrial Revolution and modernization precipitated their decline. Deserting the countryside, they left en masse for the cities. As the rural exodus gathered momentum, conservatives saw peasants as the embodiment of all traditional values. Reputed to be more obedient and hard-working than workers, they were the main cannon fodder of the First World War. Fascism and Nazism took this mystification to the extreme, invoking the eternal peasant as the guardian of soil and blood. But the real peasant is subject to the dictates of the state, technocrats and agronomists. Unaffected by political regimes, the steamroller of industrial agriculture has continued to advance ever since. Yet the peasants are still there, making other voices heard.

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A History of the European Rural Life

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202456m7.3

Documentary

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Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Apr 23, 2024

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