Here round-faced peasant women with red kerchiefs over their heads, workers in plain dark blouse without tie or collar, commissars in high boots, mingled democratically and argued with equal ardor.

In a nation of farmers, the Philippines is now importing more rice than any other, heaping poverty and debt on struggling ...

A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and ...

"I don't think they should glorify me. I am just a peasant woman. I don't understand why I've become a celebrity." The woman who has become known as Babushka Z - "grandmother" in Russian ...

Despite their products being known nationwide and associated with the day-to-day lives of people in China, few are aware of ...

Known as the “Paper Queen”, Zhang Yin began her career collecting scrap paper and rose to become China’s richest person in 2006, the first woman to ... his career as a peasant worker and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A social media clip of a 2014 video of actor Bill Murray talking about a painting that he said saved his ...

That affected a total of 115,012 farmers across the region, with 40,661 of them being women farmers, predominately peasant ...

40.6 x 30.5 cm. (16 x 12 in.) ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern ...

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