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This dissertation examines peasant attitudes toward the World Bank-supervised Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) introduced in 1986. It focuses on explaining Yoruba peasant farmers' responses to the SAP and evaluates the program's impact on peasant agriculture. This st…

This dissertation studies the rise of rural-based cultural nationalism in the USSR in the years between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the break-up of the USSR in 1991. It analyzes the lives and work of a multinational group of writers who were part of a massive wave of rural-t…

This study focuses on the cult of the peasant, advocated by the Turkish ruling elite as the most important constituent element of Kemalist populism from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. Embodied in the so-called peasantist [köycü ] ideology and practices, the adv…