Converse of object

• lead: The first stage was the popular uprising under Wallace and Andrew Moray, whose backbone was an armed peasantry led by minor gentry.

• irrigate: In rural areas, the new business affected the irrigating peasantry whose traditional and self managed water systems and uses were at risk.

• exploit: It was the Bolshevik state not the bag traders who acted like a capitalist in its merciless attempts to exploit the peasantry.

• oppress: He differs from Amos, however, in being more deeply in sympathy with the sufferings of the oppressed peasantry.

• represent: In 1891 Lenin passed his Law exam with high honors, whereupon he took to representing the poorest peasantry in Samara.

• work: The voice of the working peasantry was not heard.

Preposition: as

• force: There was no reawakening of the peasantry as a revolutionary force.

Adjective modifier

• Russian: To the whole Russian peasantry In struggle you will find your rights!

• Irish: Evidence against The Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland did little to help the everyday lives of the Irish peasantry.

• poor: Thirdly, the poor peasantry must be united against the rural bourgeoisie which currently holds surplus grain stocks.

• middle: There is a class war going on in the villages but it is of the poor and middle peasantry against the kulaks.

• rural: The old methods of subsistence farming disappeared with the rural peasantry.

• English: He undertook the first serious and sustained attempt to collect the traditional songs of the English peasantry and workers, predominantly in West Devon.

Modifies a noun

• cannot: A revolution in which the prime force is the peasantry cannot rise to the height of the tasks posed by history.

Noun used with modifier

• toiling: Such a conflict of opinion cannot provide nourishment for other parties within the working class and among the toiling peasantry.

Preposition: in

• revolution: That was the natural and inevitable reciprocal relations between proletariat and peasantry in the Revolution.

• order: The minister should have been denounced for wanting to disorganise the peasantry in order to moderate and regiment it.

• country: Does it not stare one in the face, this complete non-comprehension and ignoring of the peasantry in a country like Russia?