Alexander's emancipation
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- Alexander's emancipation
- 1861
- Peasants were given land by the tzar which had be taken from the nobility.
- They would have to pay of the tzar and the nobility
- The majority of the money would go to the tzar, which made the nobility very unhappy.
- The payments or 'Redemption Dues' were to be paid for 49 years.
- They would have to pay of the tzar and the nobility
- Reasons
- loss of Crimean war, the peasants were conscripted for 25yrs, they didn't know how or why they were fighting (no motivation)
- Russia was the only remaining country to have serfs, to stay a power peasants had to be emancipated
- Alexander wanted to stay a power, to do this he had to modernise. meaning more industry. most of the population was serfs and not enough factory workers for cities to industrialise.
- by emancipating serfs, he hoped they would move to the cities.
- at this point russia was manily manufacturing: cotton; sugar; and coal.
- in the absence of serfdom, industrial reform would have most likely been much greater and much faster. undoubtedly there were other factors that cause Russia to lag behind, such as: unfavourable climate; uneven distribution of its natural resources; lack of and inadequacy of transport.
- as alexander stated to the nobility in 1856, "it is better to abolish from above, than to be abolished from below"
- he did not want a repeat of the pugachev revolt (1773-1775)
- as part of his speech he asked the nobility to present ideas of emancipation.
- Peasants were given land by the tzar which had be taken from the nobility.
- 1861
- alexander wanted to use reform as a demonstration of industrial growth, emancipation was the easiest was to do so.
- in the absence of serfdom, industrial reform would have most likely been much greater and much faster. undoubtedly there were other factors that cause Russia to lag behind, such as: unfavourable climate; uneven distribution of its natural resources; lack of and inadequacy of transport.
- alexander sensed that there would be a revolt
- as alexander stated to the nobility in 1856, "it is better to abolish from above, than to be abolished from below"
- he did not want a repeat of the pugachev revolt (1773-1775)
- as part of his speech he asked the nobility to present ideas of emancipation.
- as alexander stated to the nobility in 1856, "it is better to abolish from above, than to be abolished from below"
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