Instead, Annensky desired an agrarian socialism based on the peasant commune.

Chicherin stopped writing private memoranda and started a debate on the peasant commune.

His early work on the peasant commune influenced Georgy Plekhanov.

The town is iconic for the years in which it flourished as an egalitarian peasant commune.

Historically a hramada was meant as a peasant commune, which gathered meetings for discussing and resolving current issues.

Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune.

During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.

At its centre stood the peasant commune, they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.

Critics say that he shared populist views on the peasant commune.

Their mission was to provide a modern statistical description of the Russian peasant commune, or obschina.