Peasant salad this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Young women offer berries to visitors to their izba home, 1909. Those who had been serfs among the Russian peasantry were officially emancipated in 1861.

In some contexts, “peasant” has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and developing countries of the world. Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district. Peasants typically made up the majority of the agricultural labour force in a pre-industrial society. Though “peasant” is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farmed much of the land.