Emancipation Flashcards
1
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Changes
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- Personal freedom (uninterfered marriage, law courts use, and set up their own businesses)
- Granted ownership
2
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Allotment
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- Minimum size allotment
- 75% serfs received allotment (20% smaller than the land they worked in)
- 80% considered necessary to feed a family
3
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Redemption dues
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- Freed serfs were to repay the state over 49 years 6% interest
4
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State serfs
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- Granted some terms
- Transition year was 5 years
- Received larger plots of land
5
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Household serfs
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- Received nothing except freedom
6
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How did peasants and nobles respond to emancipation?
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Peasants believed it was too moderate, nobles believed it was too radical, 647 incidents
7
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How did the nobility feel about emancipation?
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Nobility felt betrayed
8
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Success of emancipation in legal terms of rights and liberty
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40M liberated
9
Q
What was the emancipation compared to?
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USA’s abolition of slavery in 1865 B/C of guaranteed land
10
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What did the success of the emancipation lead to?
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- Over 85% of former serfs becoming land owners in 20Y
- Peasant disturbance reduced in next 40Y
11
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Failures of Emancipation
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- Emancipation was difficult to implement at a local level
- The system favoured land owners
12
Q
Who controlled the serfs after emancipation?
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The MIR
- Could restrict freedom and travel in the village
13
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MIR
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peasant commune
14
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What did emancipation fail to solve?
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- Industrial backwardness
- They lacked land and were transformed into a new class
