Eastern Europe agrarian question in Karl Marx’s work

Abstract

This article consists of an agrarian question analysis in Eastern Europe (mainly of Russian peasants’situation) in Karl Marx’s work. It focuses the difference analysis between Western and Eastern Europes. Marx pointed out the revolutionary possibility to Eastern peasants but not to Western ones because he did not glimpse, anymore, the idea that Western peasants could be able to organize themselves as a really independent class. Besides that, this study tries to discuss which direction the peasants’ revolutionary movement would take, according to Marx, and whether the socialism construction in Russia would be possible without the ‘intermediate stage’ of capitalism, based in the ancient Russian agrarian community - the mir