David Moon - The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia

SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORY

The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 17621907

DAVID MOON

First published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited

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Such is the pace of historical enquiry in the modern world that there is an ever-widening gap between the specialist article or monograph, incorporating the results of current research, and general surveys, which inevitably become out of date. Seminar Studies in History is designed to bridge this gap. The series was founded by Patrick Richardson in 1966 and his aim was to cover major themes in British, European and World history. Between 1980 and 1996 Roger Lockyer continued his work, before handing the editorship over to Clive Emsley and Gordon Martel. Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University, while Gordon Martel is Professor of International History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, and Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University.

All the books are written by experts in their field who are not only familiar with the latest research but have often contributed to it. They are frequently revised, in order to take account of new information and interpretations. They provide a selection of documents to illustrate major themes and provoke discussion, and also a guide to further reading. The aim of Seminar Studies in History is to clarify complex issues without over-simplifying them, and to stimulate readers into deepening their knowledge and understanding of major themes and topics.

The research for this book was supported financially by the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Strathclyde. I owe debts of gratitude to the staffs of the libraries of these two universities, in particular the inter-library loans desks. I should also like to acknowledge the help of the staffs of the libraries of the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham, the British Library (both St Pancras and Boston Spa), the Slavonic Library of the University of Helsinki, and the Russian National Library and Russian State Historical Archive in St Petersburg. A number of colleagues have been generous with advice, comments and suggestions. As ever, I am grateful to David Saunders. In addition, David Christian, Terry Cox, Conan Fischer and Maureen Perrie kindly read and commented on draft chapters. Sole responsibility for any errors or shortcomings lies, of course, with the author. Unless otherwise indicated, the documents in Part Four of this book were translated from the original Russian by the author.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

from The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, edited and translated by S. Wobst, reprinted by permission of Academic International Press (Zaionchkovsky, P. A. 1978).

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All dates in this book are in the Julian calendar, which was used in Russia from 1700 to 1918. In the nineteenth century, it was 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar, which was used in most of the rest of Europe. It is not possible to include trends in social, economic and intellectual aspects of the history of the abolition of serfdom in a chronology.