Slavery and Serfdom in Russia

Hellie, Richard

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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%

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Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

Ketola¹

2015

Global Environment

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Climate change migration, climigration, has occurred through the ages, but with anthropogenic climate change it is predicted to swell. A Special Issue of this journal has earlier discussed environmental change related migration in history. This paper takes a complementary approach by studying other migratory movements in history and applying their lessons to plan climigration. Examples of six historically documented phenomena are investigated: mass migration, refuge seeking, evacuation, exile, slave trade and colonialism. These are explored in relation to the most inhabitable climigration destinations: the northern parts of the United States, Canada, the Nordic countries, Northern European Russia and Siberia. The purpose of this research is to help governments and global organisations to turn desperate, chaotic clirefuge-seeking into orderly, purposeful climigration, so that the migrants maintain their cultural identities, and, with the local inhabitants of the destination areas, build economically, socially, culturally and environmentally sustainable communities.

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Section: Slave Trade and Forced Labour Migration Lessonsmentioning

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Section: Slave Trade and Forced Labour Migration Lessonsmentioning

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Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

Ketola¹

2015

Global Environment

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“…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

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'Licentious girls' and frontier domesticators: women and Siberian exile from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries

Gentes¹

2003

Sibirica

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This article aims at filling the historiographical gap of the part played by women in the early Siberian exile system. The state exploited both their bodies and labour, forcing them to be sexual pacifiers and producers of babies as well as 'frontier domesticators' in general. First sent in the late sixteenth century, their numbers increased after the Ulozhenie of 1649, which largely replaced the death sentence with exile. Further important stages in development were marked by Peter the Great as part of his construction of a service state and by Catherine the Great using Siberia for the purposes of expanding the population and removing schismatics. By the end of the eighteenth century, just over 50 per cent of more than half a million Russians living in Siberia's rural areas were women, both exiles and 'volunteers'. The article concludes that the treatment of such women impeded later Russian efforts to create a healthy society.

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“…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

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The Consequences of the Military Revolution in Muscovy in Comparative Perspective

Poe

1996

Preprint

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What has been called the early modern military revolution may be described most simply as the replacement of small cavalry forces by huge gunpowder infantry armies. The revolution was a diffusionary process with a relatively well-understood chronology and geography. The innovations at its core began in northern Italy in the later fifteenth century and spread throughout central, northern, and eastern Europe in the three centuries that followed. Seen in this way, it was a unique and unitary phenomenon. Thus we speak of the military revolution, an episode in world history, instead of several different revolutions in the constituent parts of Europe. Nonetheless, the course and impact of the revolution were different in the regions it eventually affected.

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Slavery and Serfdom in Russia

Cited by 9 publications

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Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

'Licentious girls' and frontier domesticators: women and Siberian exile from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries

The Consequences of the Military Revolution in Muscovy in Comparative Perspective

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