Bibliographic Index of Soviet Military Books, 1975-1979.

Insurgency, counterinsurgency, and the rational peasant

“…Yet, many works on peasant political behavior have depicted nonelite behavior as distinctly nonideological, largely apolitical, and determined more by a concern with short term damage limitation or benefit maximization than by preferences for any institutional or ideological order that competing elites promise. 3 The goals that determine the behavior of nonelites are often more mundane and immediate than those of the elites and counterelites who seek to mobilize nonelites' support. Leites and Wolf (1970: 8-16) recognize this in drawing the distinction between supportive behaviors and political preferences of nonelites in revolutionary situations.…”