A Companion to Russian History 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308419.ch7
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Slavery and Serfdom in Russia

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“…The Mongols invaded Kievan Rus in the thirteenth century enslaving its population; they did not invade the rising state of Muscovy but were raiding it still in the sixteenth century taking thousands of slaves (Curtis, 1998: 10-12;Hellie, 1982). With the establishment of the Russian Empire (1721-1917), slavery was abolished by Peter the Great by 1723.…”
Section: Slave Trade and Forced Labour Migration Lessonsmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…The Mongols invaded Kievan Rus in the thirteenth century enslaving its population; they did not invade the rising state of Muscovy but were raiding it still in the sixteenth century taking thousands of slaves (Curtis, 1998: 10-12;Hellie, 1982). With the establishment of the Russian Empire (1721-1917), slavery was abolished by Peter the Great by 1723.…”
Section: Slave Trade and Forced Labour Migration Lessonsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…With the establishment of the Russian Empire (1721-1917), slavery was abolished by Peter the Great by 1723. The peculiar characteristic of slavery in Russia was that the slaves were natives, not foreigners or members of religious or ethnic minority groups (Hellie, 1982). In fact most Russian slaves (apart from Mongolian captures) chose their fate because they had two options in life: starvation or slavery (Hellie, 1982).…”
Section: Slave Trade and Forced Labour Migration Lessonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Between 1430 and 1714, the state registered 5575 individual slaves of various types, but these represented only a portion of a much larger total. 17 named Kevani, who then sold her to a fellow tribesman named Inkan. 18 Peter I abolished slavery in Russia, but it persisted in Siberia because so many more Russian men than women were there.…”
Section: Women Exiles During the Muscovite Eramentioning
confidence: 98%
“…46 Most hereditary military servitors (sluzhilye liudi po otechestvu) controlled peasant labor and were burdened with martial and administrative duties, while contract military servitors (sluzhilye liudi po priboru) received cash and commercial concessions 47 ; taxpayers (tiaglye liudi) either engaged in urban trades and paid government duties 48 or were serfs (krest'iane), in which case they labored for the gentry; non-taxpayers (netiaglye liudi) -especially slaves -controlled no resources and served their owners, who in turn served the tsar. 49 Finally, let us review the broader cultural effects of the military reforms in Muscovy. The military revolution in the West was accompanied by a movement toward technicality in the culture of state activity.…”
Section: The Impact Of the Military Revolution In Muscovymentioning
confidence: 99%