Emancipation

Question 1

Changes

Answer 1

• Personal freedom (uninterfered marriage, law courts use, and set up their own businesses)
• Granted ownership

Question 2

Allotment

Answer 2

• Minimum size allotment
• 75% serfs received allotment (20% smaller than the land they worked in)
• 80% considered necessary to feed a family

Question 3

Redemption dues

Answer 3

• Freed serfs were to repay the state over 49 years 6% interest

Question 4

State serfs

Answer 4

• Granted some terms
• Transition year was 5 years
• Received larger plots of land

Question 5

Household serfs

Answer 5

• Received nothing except freedom

Question 6

How did peasants and nobles respond to emancipation?

Answer 6

Peasants believed it was too moderate, nobles believed it was too radical, 647 incidents

Question 7

How did the nobility feel about emancipation?

Answer 7

Nobility felt betrayed

Question 8

Success of emancipation in legal terms of rights and liberty

Answer 8

40M liberated

Question 9

What was the emancipation compared to?

Answer 9

USA’s abolition of slavery in 1865 B/C of guaranteed land

Question 10

What did the success of the emancipation lead to?

Answer 10

• Over 85% of former serfs becoming land owners in 20Y
• Peasant disturbance reduced in next 40Y

Question 11

Failures of Emancipation

Answer 11

• Emancipation was difficult to implement at a local level
• The system favoured land owners

Question 12

Who controlled the serfs after emancipation?

Answer 12

The MIR

• Could restrict freedom and travel in the village

Question 13

MIR

Answer 13

peasant commune

Question 14

What did emancipation fail to solve?

Answer 14

• Industrial backwardness
• They lacked land and were transformed into a new class