These themes include: tsarist rule as an instrument of both reform and reaction; the relationship between the ruler and the major social groups; the significance of serfdom for Russia's economic, ...

And the top judicial official in Russia is one of them- he appears to be advocating a return to serfdom. Valery Zorkin, the head of Russian's Constitutional Court, wrote an article that was ...

He opposed all attempts to reform Russia's autocratic government, or end its brutal system of serfdom. The Decembrists, organising themselves into secret societies and publishing their own draft ...

In 1825, a group of disillusioned army officers launched a coup in the Russian capital, St.Petersburg. Their goal was to ...

The resulting collapse led to the abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 (two years before Lincoln abolished slavery in America), a new legal system, and elective self-government in the provinces ...

The burden of taxation was so great that periodic riots broke out. The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II. However, in order to give the peasants land ...