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Kropotkin's Essay 'Emancipating The Serfs'
Kropotkin wrote a great essay called “Emancipating the Serfs (1861). In that essay he gave great statistics about emancipation, he said that around 30 million of serfs received their freedom and around 90 million acres of land were distributed among the serfs. However, even though these numbers favor serfs, it doesn’t mean that it actually favors them. Peasants were still under obligation to their landowners, they were forced to pay rent for their land after two-year initial hiatus. They had to keep paying rent until value of land was covered by the rent. In general it still benefited the elite class because they appraised their lands for really high values, which caused many serfs to fail to pay it off. Then in class we slowly shifted toward
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