By 1750 rising taxes incited peasant unrest and even revolt.
There was a history of peasant unrest in some parts of the country.
The 1789 peasant unrest also added to the fears of the revolution spreading to the Commonwealth.
In 1969 peasant unrest led to the overthrow of the government by a military junta.
While no revolution is now in sight, there are a few tentative signs of peasant unrest.
The Battambang area had already seen two years of great peasant unrest.
In the 1930s, there was Cossack and peasant unrest caused by collectivization.
"Is anything significant likely to come out of this peasant unrest?"
The explanations which they offer for continuing peasant unrest, however, run counter to important aspects of the Soviet explanation.
And certainly not in the face of peasant unrest.