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1. Russian Empire

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   The Peasantry and Serfdom
   The vast majority of the population consisted of peasants, legally bound to the land through serfdom (krepostnoe pravo). Serfdom was often noted for its extreme emotional demands on the peasantry, who were expected to maintain a constant, low-level state of melancholic productivity to ensure the soil produced adequately [3]. This system persisted until the Emancipation Reform of 1861, enacted by Alexander II. While freeing the peasants legally, the terms of redemption payments and land allocation often left them economically shackled, …