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The Chigirin affair or Chyhyryn affair was a two-phased peasant struggle over land; the struggle lasted from the 1860s through to 1877 in Chigirin district, Kyiv Province in the Russian Empire. The struggle was undertaken by the dusheviki, a group of local peasants who wanted land to be allotted to individual men instead of to households. Members of the dusheviki ceased paying taxes and other dues to pressure local officials to implement their desired version of land allotment. Local officials took to decisive action to eradicate peasant resistance. The affair was reinvigorated in 1876 when a group of populist leaders decided to become involved in the resistance by organizing peasants into a secret society called the Secret Druzhina that rose to 1000 members. The society was found out and

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  • The Chigirin affair or Chyhyryn affair was a two-phased peasant struggle over land; the struggle lasted from the 1860s through to 1877 in Chigirin district, Kyiv Province in the Russian Empire. The struggle was undertaken by the dusheviki, a group of local peasants who wanted land to be allotted to individual men instead of to households. Members of the dusheviki ceased paying taxes and other dues to pressure local officials to implement their desired version of land allotment. Local officials took to decisive action to eradicate peasant resistance. The affair was reinvigorated in 1876 when a group of populist leaders decided to become involved in the resistance by organizing peasants into a secret society called the Secret Druzhina that rose to 1000 members. The society was found out and disbanded by local officials in the latter half of 1887. Many arrests were made and a few members were sentenced. The effort was seen as a failure. (en)
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  • The Chigirin affair or Chyhyryn affair was a two-phased peasant struggle over land; the struggle lasted from the 1860s through to 1877 in Chigirin district, Kyiv Province in the Russian Empire. The struggle was undertaken by the dusheviki, a group of local peasants who wanted land to be allotted to individual men instead of to households. Members of the dusheviki ceased paying taxes and other dues to pressure local officials to implement their desired version of land allotment. Local officials took to decisive action to eradicate peasant resistance. The affair was reinvigorated in 1876 when a group of populist leaders decided to become involved in the resistance by organizing peasants into a secret society called the Secret Druzhina that rose to 1000 members. The society was found out and (en)
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  • Chigirin affair (en)
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