prefeudal

(priːˈfjuːdəl)

adj

(Historical Terms) of the period before the feudal era

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Some present-day researchers define October 1917 as a "traditionalist counter-revolution," which threw the country in the sphere of social relations back to the level of a deep prefeudal archaic.

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By contrast, proponents of the "feudalist" theory (scholars of feudal law) argue that collective lands originated as rights of use over feudal land, which were granted in medieval times by a feudal lord to the local population, either as a benevolent concession or as a formal recognition of an actual use by the population dating back to remote, prefeudal times.