On February February 19, 1861 Czar Alexander II emancipated Russia’s serfs. Historian John Schmidt explains how it happened. PHOTO: Czar Alexander II of Russia (Wikimedia Commons) ...
In the nineteenth century, Russia was a European power but in many ways it was trapped in the past. Twenty-two million Russians were serfs, still owned by aristocratic landlords as they had been ...
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‘Emancipation’ Review: Liberty and Its AftermathAt roughly the same time, in the early 1860s, the U.S. liberated nearly four million enslaved black Americans, and Alexander II of Russia freed some 23 million serfs. In “Emancipation,” an ...
The Black Sea has been a key battleground area for Russia and Ukraine throughout the war. Ukraine's navy does not have any large warships, but has worked alongside the other branches of Kyiv's ...
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