HISTORY
NATIONALISM AND THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY
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Question
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The serfs were forced to fight the Crimean War.
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The serfs created elected assemblies called zemstvos.
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The serfs were too poor to buy the farms allotted to them.
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The serfs became radicals, demanding democracy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first stage was emancipation, and it gave freedoms to all serfs. The peasants still had to pay their landlords fixed rent payments, but the landlords could no longer raise these obligations arbitrarily.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chief among these was the serf’s lack of freedom of movement; he could not permanently leave his holding or his village without his lord’s permission. Neither could the serf marry, change his occupation, or dispose of his property without his lord’s permission.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emancipation had been intended to cure Russia’s most basic social weakness, the backwardness and want into which serfdom cast the nation’s peasantry. In fact, though an important class of well-to-do peasants did emerge in time, most remained poor and land-hungry, crushed by huge redemption payments.