Download or read book Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China written by Roland Mousnier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid order of a two-class structure and replace it with a more democratic society.