Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Russian Empire in the Nineteenth Ce7itury 679 Civil War which was to put an end to negro slavery in theUnited States. In his anxiety to prevent any loss to the land-owners, who constituted the ruling class in the Russian govern-ment, the Tsar did his work in a very half-hearted manner. Itis true the government deprived the former lord of his right toforce the peasants to work for him and to pay him the old dues ;he could no longer flog them or command them
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Russian Empire in the Nineteenth Ce7itury 679 Civil War which was to put an end to negro slavery in theUnited States. In his anxiety to prevent any loss to the land-owners, who constituted the ruling class in the Russian govern-ment, the Tsar did his work in a very half-hearted manner. Itis true the government deprived the former lord of his right toforce the peasants to work for him and to pay him the old dues ;he could no longer flog them or command them to marry against. Fig. 175. Russian Peasants Home their will; but the peasants still remained bound to the land,for they were not permitted to leave their villages without agovernment pass. The landlords surrendered a portion of their The villageestates to the peasants, but this did not become the property o? ot/)^of individual owners, but was vested in the village communityas a whole. The government dealt very generously with the landlords,as might have been anticipated. It not only agreed that thepeasants should be required to pay for such land as theirformer masters turned over to them, but commonly fixed the 68o Medieval and Mode?n Times Eman-cipation ahardship Change inmethod oflandholding Origin ofterrorism Terrorism,1878-1881 price at an amount far greater than the real value of the land— a price which the government paid the landlords and thenbegan to collect from the serfs in installments. His new free-dom seemed to the peasant little better than that enjoyed bya convict condemned to hard la
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