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Russia in Mid- 19th Century: The Population
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- (Alexander II) Russia Mapa Mental sobre Russia in Mid- 19th Century: The Population, creado por Miranda Daniel el 20/12/2015.
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Russia in Mid- 19th Century: The Population
Habitat
Covered 2 continents (Europe & Asia) and one sixth of world's landmass
Large parts uninhabited/ sparsely populated
Northern part (Tundra)= frozen for most of year
Endless miles of (impenetrable) forest
Open plains and grassland (esp. Black Earth region)
Far south= desert
Climate= difficult for agriculture (unpredictable rainfall and droughts)
The People
C15th onwards= Moscow inhabitants conquered the people around them
1859- Vladivostok and eastern Pacific Ocean became part of Empire
1964- Georgian and Chechen people secured
1860s-70s= central Asian area (inc. Turkestan) conquered
Over 100 different nationalities under the control of the Russian state
Population divide
Russians= 1/2 of population
Mostly in European part of Russia
St Petersburg= sophisticated European Russians
Desert south= nomadic Muslims; lived like Native Americans
Social Structure
1859- population 70 million
90% peasants
Nobility
Less than 1%
C17th= given landed estates by Tsars
In return, nobles serviced the Tsar- as armed forces officers, or public officials
V.E. in supporting the Tsar
Acted as judiciary and administrative officials
Huge variations in wealth
Count Sergei Seremetev= one of the richest
Owned nearly 150,000 male serfs
Majority owned fewer than 100 serfs; X fund lavish lifestyle
Some= poor
Not all Conservative
Active minority looking to reform Russian Society, esp. Serfdom
Others wanted more representative government, like liberalism in Western Europe
Middle Classes
Small, due to absence of industry on a large scale
Merchants, wealthy & influential
Entrepreneurs and businessmen (only became more dynamic in 2nd part of Century)
Most= bureaucratic clerical roles in central & provincial gov, & running shops and stores
9%
Peasants/ Serfs
90%
Huge variation between
1/2= SERFS
Tied to land-owning nobility
Tied to estate- X leave without permission
Required 3 days labour a week (more at harvest time)
Or, pay dues in cash/ produce- or all 3!
Some nobles would pay for extra work
Plot of land for own use
Nobles= police, judge, and jury (no access to legal system)
No rights as individuals- could be sold, traded, forbidden to marry
Some landowners educated serfs! Others whipped them
Central Russia & Provinces
Labour service= Black Earth (land= fertile; agriculture= main activity)
Estates near cities= produced foodstuffs for urban market
7% = domestic servants (no land, not paid= worst life)
1/2= state peasants
Lived on estates owned by the state/ Church/ Tsar
Paid rent to state for land
Legally free!
Still under control of state administrators though
Still had restricted travel
Better off than serfs
Larger land holdings
Could get more involved in rural handicrafts/ work in factories to supplement their income
The Mir
Village commune controlling the peasants; an assembly of households
Run by peasants
Meetings allowed discussion of ideas
Allocated land; amount of land depended on size of household
Fields were divided into strips so everyone got good and bad land
Pastureland and meadows held in common
Inefficient; time wasted moving between strips
Responsible for making sure serfs fulfilled labour/ payments on private estates
Dominated by older peasants who resisted change
Punish: chose who was conscripted for the army
Cooperation & mutual support; violence, jealousy, rivalries
Farming
3 field rotation system
Wheat, rye, oats
Household plots for houses
Garden plots for food and livestock
Fish, beer, vegetable soup
Workers
No industrial revolution- few large scale industrial works
Spinning mills St. Petersburg
Technologically backwards
Peasant handicrafts
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