Still, it is hard to see these artifacts without imagining the chasm that separated the peasant masses from the increasingly callous and self-absorbed monarchy.

However, the order gained widespread popularity amongst peasant masses.

He was to lead the soldiers rebellion, which came from the peasant masses.

This meant a strong democratic trend that was associated with sympathy for enslaved peasant masses, with sharp hostility to the Muscovite oppressors.

It was a great national and social movement, as the increasingly exploited Rus' peasant masses joined the Cossacks to fight their szlachta oppressors.

Czarniecki introduced guerrilla warfare with heavy participation of peasant masses.

Other languages were seen as keeping the peasant masses in obscurantism.

The peasant masses could neither afford books nor read them.

Lacking any organization and completely out of touch with the peasant masses in whose interests they sought to speak, they were easily dealt with.

The Government encouraged education: it was during Alexander's reign that the education of the peasant masses started on a vast scale.