“In many ways, Russian serfdom was similar to American slavery,” writes Mr. Kolchin, a history professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. “They had similar lifespans, emerging in the ...

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The burden of taxation was so great that periodic riots broke out. The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II. However, in order to give the peasants land ...