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What was the general character and scale of revolutionary processes at work in the outbreak of peasant unrest in the localities themselves? How can we more closely identify the milieux from which unrest first emerged? Were there identifiable actors who played key roles, who served as initiators or catalysts for larger events, whether from within, from outside or from somewhere astride criteria usual to definitions of “peasantries?” Is it possible, on a level of aggregation closer to events themselves, to approximate more precisely specific factors that distinguished villages involved in peasant local unrest—by the nature of their interaction with nearby landowners or of their particular occupational orientations? One best approaches answers to such questions by close analysis of peasant unrest in the narrow confines of the localities in which they occur, and by an effort to acquaint oneself, as far as the sources permit, with the character of the villages identified with incidents of disorder. Such an approach, it seemed to me, could shed further light on the nature and scale of the peasant movement during 1905–1906, on its intensity and typological and chronological “architecture,” . but already in local contexts —From the author's Introduction Central European University Press Budapest–New York Sales and information: ceupress@ceu.hu Website: http://www.ceupress.com 9 786155 225178 0 0 0 0 9 ISBN 978-615-5225-17-8 ...