Topic:Peasantry under Tsarist and Communist Russia

Q.'How far do you agree that the economic position of the peasantry in Russia was stronger in the period between the Emancipation and the Revolution than it was under Lenin and Stalin?'
My answer:
From 1856 to 1953 Russia was a country of great change, moving from Tsarist to Communist rule under Stalin. A central part of the reasons for Russia's change was agriculture and this essay explores the impact of those changes upon the peasants.
For those wanting change, the reign of Alexander II saw him in 1861 issue his 'Emancipation Manifesto', that proposed seventeen legislation acts that wou…