Emancipation of the Serfs - A Humanitarian Reform?

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What historian has portrayed the Edict of Emancipation as a moral improvement?

M.S. Anderson contended that 'the grant of individual freedom and a minimum of civil rights to twenty million people previously in legal bondage was the single greatest liberating measure in the whole history of Europe'

Why could the Emancipation Edict be portrayed as a Humanitarian Reform?

Free peasant could:
  1. Marry without consent of a third party
  2. hold property in his own name
  3. had legal protection
  4. engage in trade or business
  5. no longer be bought or sold

What is an example of the same civil rights being achieved much less peacefully?

It took four years of bloody Civil War in the United States (1861-65) to give American slaves this same dignity
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Who are examples of Russian intellectuals who criticised social injustice in Russian society before the Emancipation Edict?

  1. Radischev
  2. Pushkin
  3. Turgenev
  4. Herzen

What, according to Watts, was the significance of the abolition of serfdom?

Not as a reform in itself; it was flawed in many ways. However it gave the impetus to further reform.

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