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The vast majority of Russians were peasant farmers barely staying alive on what they grew on the small plots of land they worked for the people who owned the land. Until 1861 they were serfs, bound to the land owned by the nobles and unable to move elsewhere to better themselves. Once serfdom was abolished they were still bound to the land for about 49 years after their "freedom" because they had to pay the nobles for the land the government took from them and gave to the peasants. This low standard of living was one of the major causes of the Russian Revolution.

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