Russian Emancipation of Serfs

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…to pay it. Economically the emancipation does not encourage economics in part because the peasants were not happy with the reforms not delivering what they expected to receive from the reforms; land ownership, true freedom, and equality. Although we could not hold the Romanov rulers wholly responsible for serfdom, however, they did little to improve economic and social conditions of the serfs. To overcome peasantry as a whole it would take the destruction of government.