History A-Level
Backwardness of peasant agriculture
What Backwardness of peasant agriculture means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Peasant farming stayed backward after 1861, with strip farming, communal repartition, low yields and debt limiting innovation.
Topics that use Backwardness of peasant agriculture
- Paper 3, Option 38.1: The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991 - 2 Agriculture and productivity: meeting the country's needs? (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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