It wants to retain as much flexibility as possible in subsidizing that population, an important mechanism in keeping rural unrest in check.

The Great Depression of the 1870s opened an era of rural unrest and peasant revolution.

The risks of rural unrest are probably lower, but in a country with a tradition of peasant revolts, they cannot be ignored.

The unstable rural unrest of the early nineteenth century characterised by secret organizations and unlawful armed assembly was effectively controlled.

But the government's refusal to find a peaceful solution to the problem created rural unrest that played into the hands of the Communist movement.

And rural unrest, labor strife and bureaucratic intransigence combine to hinder investment, both foreign and domestic.

The rural unrest can be traced back to the spring of 1788, when a drought threatened the prospect of the coming harvest.

As the rural unrest grew, American refugees straggled across the border.

In 1917 Kursk guberniia was amongst the worst twelve Russian provinces affected by disorganized rural unrest.

A pattern of rural unrest continued, feeding into both rebellion and loyalism: