Emancipation of the Serfs
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- Created on: 04-10-23 09:15
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- Emancipation of the Serfs 1861
- Successes
- Major economic statistics grow e.g. exports, income
- First monumental step towards modernisation
- Kick start economy - rail building, arms metal works
- Foreign and domestic trade grew
- Ushered in other reforms
- Failures
- Technical backwardness remained, still subsistence
- loss of status and power and loss of land
- many attracted to intellectual groups opposing autocracy
- gave rise to revolutionaries
- many attracted to intellectual groups opposing autocracy
- small plots = couldnt enforce modern efficient methods
- tied to Mir - no mobile working force
- still not modern state
- tied to Mir - no mobile working force
- peasants resented redemption payments, nobles still controlled the best land
- Why?
- economy
- prevented progress, no mobile work force
- low productivity levels
- prevented progress, no mobile work force
- political
- defeats in military left power questioned
- Moral and Intellectual - pressure for reform from peasants and nobles
- economy
- Successes
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