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Results of Emancipation - Coggle Diagram
Results of Emancipation
Terms
30 March 1861: Alexander II freed all Russian serfs (who made up one-third of the total population - 23 milliona0
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Peasants received land from the landowners, and could also buy land from them
Peasants had to pay the government redemption tax as compensation for the financial loss of the landowners
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Landowners
Benefits
The backward social system prevented Russia from modernising. Its abolishment faciliated the development of the Russian economy, and hene strengthened the nation
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As the bulk of the work force was more mobile to work in the cities (this was beneficial to landowners who invested in factories)
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Negatives
The serfs generated mass amounts of money for the nobles. Emancipation meant that the nobles would have to find other avenues to maintain their economic status
The land that serf dwellings were built on became the property of the serfs automatically, and the nobles had no right of appeal
This social reform considerably weakened the existing elite, the landowners, who lost their iron-cast control over the serfs
The discontent peasants revolved, hence disturbing the lives of the nobles
Power was decentralised because of the establishment and the increase in power of local governments (the mir). This position of authority had hitherto been assumed by the nobles
Peasants
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Negatives
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Some newly freed serfs were forced to ‘rent’ land from wealthy landowners to pay the tax, and ended up neglecting their own fields
Over the next few years, the yields from the peasants’ crops remained low, and there was a famine
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Economic impacts
The Tsar hoped that emancipating the serfs would result in large-scale economic growth, but this not happen
As most of the peasants were still very poor, they did not have sufficient purchasing power to stimulate the market to produce consumer goods, and the consumer class in Russia remained very small