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RUSSIA’S peasant population amounted to some 40 million on the eve of the Emancipation. Of these, a little over half were in personal bondage to the Russian gentry, while the remainder consisted principally of various categories of ‘state’ and ‘crown’ peasants. The 1861 Act, together with several other measures affecting Russia’s administrative and judicial system, could not fail to influence Russia’s economic life, and the year 1861 forms an important landmark in Russian economic history.
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Falkus, M.E. (1972). The Emancipation of the Serfs and Economic Development. In: The Industrialisation of Russia, 1700–1914. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00988-6_6
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