NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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serfs because they were uneducated
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nobles because they had serfs and didn’t need to modernize
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middle class lacked resources needed
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nobles because they refused access to natural resources
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Detailed explanation-1: -The serfs were emancipated in 1861, following a speech by Tsar Alexander II on March 30, 1856. In Georgia, the emancipation took place later, in 1864, and on much better terms for the nobles than in Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emancipation Manifesto, (March 3 [Feb. 19, Old Style], 1861), manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs of the Russian Empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander II The Tsar of Russia from March 2, 1855, until his assassination in 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland. His most significant reform as emperor was emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator.
Detailed explanation-4: -Serfs gained the full rights of free citizens, including rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business. The Manifesto prescribed that peasants would be able to buy the land from the landlords. Household serfs were the least affected: they gained only their freedom and no land.