Emancipation of the Serfs

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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
      • small plots = couldnt enforce modern efficient methods
        • tied to Mir - no mobile working force
          • still not modern state
      • peasants resented redemption payments, nobles still controlled the best land
    • Why?
      • economy
        • prevented progress, no mobile work force
          • low productivity levels
      • political
        • defeats in military left power questioned
      • Moral and Intellectual - pressure for reform from peasants and nobles

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