{"id":1010,"date":"2018-05-18T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:37:40","slug":"enrichment-something-to-listen-to-in-our-time-the-emancipation-of-the-serfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2018\/05\/18\/enrichment-something-to-listen-to-in-our-time-the-emancipation-of-the-serfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – the emancipation of the serfs."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"radio4\"<\/a>If you\u00a0click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0you will get to last night’s edition of In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1861 declaration by Tsar Alexander II that serfs were now legally free of their landlords. It is a great opportunity to hear historians debate a topic that you are studying.<\/p>\n

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“Until then, over a third of Russians were tied to the land on which they lived and\u00a0worked and in practice there was little to distinguish their condition from slavery. Russia had lost the Crimean War in 1855 and there had been hundreds of uprisings, prompting the Tsar to tell the nobles, “The existing condition of owning souls cannot remain unchanged. It is better to begin to destroy serfdom from above than to wait until that time when it begins to destroy itself from below<\/span>.” Reform was constrained by the Tsar’s wish to keep the nobles on side and, for the serfs, tied by debt and law to the little land they were then allotted, the benefits were hard to see”.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

With<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Hudspith<\/em>
\nAssociate Professor in Russian at the University of Leeds<\/em><\/p>\n

Simon Dixon<\/em>
\nThe Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at UCL<\/em><\/p>\n

Shane O’Rourke<\/em>
\nSenior Lecturer in History at the University of York<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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