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Examples of serfdom
serfdom
They blind themselves to the misery of past mass monasticism and feudal serfdom.
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Thinking otherwise will only eventually lead to the road to serfdom and slavery.
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After the abolition of serfdom in 1861, savings accounts became more widespread.
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The state fully sanctioned serfdom, and runaway peasants became state fugitives.
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Not an easy endeavour, but this modern idea of income tax is worse than serfdom.
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The only significant reform was the abolition of serfdom in Austria and Hungary.
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Kotlyarevsky participated in the buyout of Mikhail Shchepkin out of the serfdom.
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Like many of his educated contemporaries, he was particularly opposed to serfdom.
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Shortly before his death he made his son Alexander II promise to abolish serfdom.
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- The state of a serf
- Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism, and specifically relates to Manorialism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe. ...
- An economic and social system characterized by serfs.
- A system in which the serf, or labourer, was not allowed to leave the land that he or she worked on
