Effects of the Serf Emancipation 1861
Advantages and Weaknesses of the Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 and later Household Serfs in 1866 within Tsarist Russia.
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EvaluationFor Tsar Alexander II and his officials the emancipation was successful from the international aspect because the title of the policy alone showed Russia from a democratic view was stepping forward and the policy is most probably all other nations would have known of it. Politically speaking the Emancipation had not been successful for the Tsar, he had lost the willing support of his nobles who now supported him out of fear of a peasant uprising whilst some nobles had been sucked into the momentum of further reforms and liberalism. Whilst he had freed the serfs which opened up the consumer economy massively for industry which was needed, he now had the problem of them wanting more reforms because they had not got the terms they were promised to begin with.The peasants came off reasonably well because they were at least out of serfdom and had some hope of further reform.They had however been impoverished by the Tsar with redemption payments, small plots and no improvement within agricultural methods but these conditions were not much different than what they had before other than they were free to manage themselves and were not punished physically like under serfdom from their lords and through conscription. There was a perceived loss of ground towards the Tsar because they were promised more and now had the means to criticize which they never had before. On the whole the most significant advantage of the emancipation of the serfs was just that because it was a very big change which did outweigh the mass of disadvantages it had brought upon peasants which on the whole weren't new, they just had not been addressed by the emancipation. |
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