Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2026
After all, from 1773 to 1775, more than thirty-five thousand agriculturalist peasants made war against Russia, in what is commonly referred to as Pugachev’s Rebellion, after the name of its leader.
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