AGRARIAN TERROR AND PEASANT PROTEST: FORMS AND MANIFESTATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AT THE TURN OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES

The article examines the socio-economic protest of the Russian peasantry and the forms of agrarian terror proposed by the revolutionary movement, analyzes their numerous manifestations, content and public perception. The steady strategy and tactics of revolutionary organizations on extremization and politicization of peasant protests in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries are noted. The conclusion is made about the peasantry's refusal to use revolutionary-terrorist forms of struggle in the course of their speeches, high peasant selectivity with regard to revolutionary slogans and propaganda provisions and the peasantry's preference for traditional, patriarchal forms of protest.