Catherine the Great attempted reforms to benefit her people, but her actions were flawed in some important ways. The authority and power of the nobility increased at the expense of the serfs, and the condition of ordinary people deteriorated.
Japan's enlightened government.
After the Czar Alexander II's emancipation edict, all the personal serfdom was abolished.
No, one had nothing to do with the other. Serfdom was abolished in 1861 although in practical terms, they were not fully freed. World War 2 did not begin until 1939 and even then the Soviet Union was not involved in it. The main cause of WW2 was the imperial intentions of Germany. Germany attacked Russia in order to overthrow the Communist government not to reinstate serfdom. In any event, whether the serfs were free or not, they were a ready source of supply to the country as soldiers and would have been conscripted into the Soviet Army whether or not they were serfs.
Czar Alexander II abolished serfdom in 1861.
Czar Alexander II freed the serfs in his empire in 1742. While they were freed, they were still very poor and still worked in terrible conditions.
Czar Alexander II. He abolished serfdom in 1861
Tsar Alexander II issued the "Emancipation Edict" which abolished the institution of serfdom.
Spain abolished serfdom in 1837
Joseph II abolished selfdom
Catherine the Great attempted reforms to benefit her people, but her actions were flawed in some important ways. The authority and power of the nobility increased at the expense of the serfs, and the condition of ordinary people deteriorated.
Joseph II
He abolished serfdom on all royal lands in Prussia, all the lands that he owned, but not throughout the country.
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Japan's enlightened government.
tenant farmers Serfdom was abolished in 1861 by Tsar Nicholas I. This was not true abolition, because the Russian government took some land away from the owners and compensated them for it. The former serfs were then responsible to repay the government for the compensation paid. This was commonly done over a 49 year period and the former serfs would not own their own land until the full amount of the debt was repaid. In all practicality, the "freed" serfs were still bound to the land because they had no where else to go to effectively make a living. In that sense, they were very much like the tenant farmers the original answerer states they were.
Joseph II