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Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

Kolchin, Peter
Brown, Keith
Brown, Keith

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19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRussian History

ISBN13: 9798228643901
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Mar 31 2026
Language: English
In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms The two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century took place in the United States and in Russia. Both occurred in the 1860s, and in both the former slaves and serfs strove to maximize their autonomy and freedom while the former masters worked to preserve as many of their prerogatives as possible. Both were partially--but only partially--successful. In this magisterial and long-awaited work, historian Peter Kolchin shows that a more radical break with the past was possible in the United States than in Russia, with the Southern freed people coming to enjoy republican citizenship, whereas Russian peasants remained subjects rather than citizens. Both countries saw conservative reactions triumph in the late nineteenth century. While this conservatism was common in most emancipations, it was especially strong in Russia and the American South, in part as a reaction against the major efforts to restructure the social order that went by the name of Reconstruction in the United States and the Great Reforms in Russia.

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