Serfdom Dbq

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The emancipation edict put forward by Alexander II in 1861 was an attempt to implement radical change but failed on many extents due to many shortcomings in execution which ultimately limited its success. The largest area of failure is arguably the lack of a social impact as the change was minimal and most change resulted in more problems or was the old system in disguise. However the change implemented, although not immediately successful, set the groundworks for future success by starting the slope to social, land related and economic improvements.
As a result of the abolition of Serfdom the largest failure could be seen as the social effect. Before 1861, 80% of Russia’s population where bound to Serfdom. One of the major problems that existed
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