A destruction of the peasant ethnic group as a phenomenon of depopulation
To review a social phenomenon of “peasantry” is a purpose of this article. An author tries to discern context of a phenomenon of social life with demographic processes. Much attention is paid to the interpretation of the term “peasantry”, which has in the scientific community ambiguous definition. The article presents an alternative, author’s point of view onto who should be regarded as the representatives of the peasantry. In order to justify its vision, the author touches upon socio-economic as well as spiritual and cultural aspects of the above-mentioned phenomena. Especially intently the author considers the problem of an interaction of work and freedom, tradition and creativity. Processes of “destruction of the peasantry” are estimated in the article clearly from the negative side, as they are crudely mechanical and artificial. Thereby the equilibrium of the natural order of things is brake off, an organic development of society is sacrificed to short-term benefits that has an extremely negative impact on population, its demographic characteristics. The author tries to give to the problem at the same time socio-demographic and philosophical vision. Therefore, a specific of this work is its binary nature.