The Emancipation of the Serfs Flashcards
1
Q
Reasons- tsar
A
Member of Intelligentsia
Moral
2
Q
Reasons- economic
A
Keep up w West (Crimean War)
Industrialisation needed
3
Q
Reasons- social
A
Growing levels of education
Riots
4
Q
How (2)
A
Establishment of the Secret Committee- focus on making settlement favourable
Gentry Committees (getting landowners on side)
5
Q
Establishment of peasant institutions
A
Volost etc
6
Q
Endgame (4)
A
The Editing Commission and the marginalisation of conservative views in the Gentry Committees (a victory for ‘bureaucratic power’)
Peasants received land but had to pay compensation over many decades; the state advanced funds to landowners for loss of serfs
State supervision of land-division
New peasant institutions (volost’, etc)
