Arendăşiile şi tocmelile agricole, generatoare ale mişcărilor ţărăneşti din anii 1888 şi 1907
Agricultural Lease and Bargaining, Generators of the Peasant's Movement in 1888 and 1907

Summary/Abstract: The paper shortly presents the causes of the peasant riots in 1888 and 1907 as analysed by renowned authors and the way these manifested themselves in some localities of Bacău County. Among the economic causes that have led to the accentuation of social inequity and moral degradation of some rich landowners, who, given their wish to live abroad leased their properties to rapaceous usurers, mostly Jews, organized in Lease Trusts. This is the case of the Fischer Brother's Lease Trust who had leased, in Botoşani County, propertiesfrom 79 communes, that is an area of 2368 square kilometres, about the size of an entire county. The robbing of the peasants was mostly manifested through the so-called agricultural bargaining, that have finally led the governors, after 1907, to adopt some regulations in order to limit the abuse that had caused the prior events.

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