A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlo
Young women offer berries to visitors to their izba home, 1909. Those who had been serfs among the Russian peasantry were officially emancipated in 1861. Photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
Finnish Savonian farmers at a cottage in early 19th century; by Pehr Hilleström and J. F. Martin
"Feiernde Bauern" ("Celebrating Peasants"), artist unknown, 18th or 19th century
Land reform have been a recurring theme of enormous consequence in world history. They are often highly political and have been achieved in many countries.
Children singing the "Internationale" at the 20th Anniversary of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement
The shah distributing land deeds during Iran's White Revolution