After the 1960s, wealthy peasants led rural community councils, which were supervised by the government.

Some of the wealthier peasants would probably have held some enclosed freehold fields.

There is also a series of clever entrepreneurs: rabbit-raisers, building contractors, wealthy peasants.

It was easy, for instance, to rally the wealthier peasants against the collectivization policy of the Anarchists.

Soviet partisans often robbed wealthier peasants and provoked German reprisals.

It was barely a hundred paces from the bridge to the wealthy peasant's house that had been turned into quarters for her.

This included 35,000 people, not just wealthy peasants and former landowners, but also members of sects deemed illegal, including Inochentists.

Despite their involvement in the market, even the wealthiest peasants prioritised spending on housing and clothing, with little left for other personal consumption.

Even further in debt, the family arranges to sell Ermei to a drunken but wealthy peasant.

Such wealthier peasants could easily become dominant figures in a village, because surprisingly few communities had a resident lord.