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Modified slavery
 Enforced labor for protection and the
right to work on leased fields
 Working in the fields and various chores
around a landowner’s estate
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Formed the lowest social class of the
feudal society
 Worked the master’s land and paid him
rent for their plots
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13th century – serfdom started
 End of 16th century – peasants were
under complete control of the
landowner
 Middle of 17th century – serfdom was
hereditary
 In 1861, Alexander II issued the
Emancipation Manifesto
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Major reform
 Land still owned by master
 Russian Revolution of 1905
 Russian Revolution of 1917
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Dostoevsky had a deep hatred toward
serfdom
 Father killed by own serfs
 Would meet with others to discuss the
idea of serfs being liberated
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› Mikhail Petrashevsky
Arrested
 Threatened to be executed
 Nicholas I staged incident
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