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Defeat in the Crimean War accelerates moves towards reform:New
eventAlexander famously tells the nobility that:
"it is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for the time when
it be ins to abolish itself from below"General Nazimov produces a report recommending Emancipation without
land along the model of that used in Estonia in 1818; but rebellions there the
following year helped to discredit the idea.Milyutin proposes Emancipation with land. This gets the support
of the Tsar.Rostovstev is put in charge of drafting the final statute and proposes a rapid
handover of freedom and land for the peasants.Rostovstev dies. His successor, Panin, dilutes his plans by making the process of
land transfer slower and more expensive for the peasants.Edict of Emancipation: "the serfdom of easants...is abolished forever"Periods
Temporary ObligationRedemption Payments & Land Transfer (from 1863, fully implemented by 1881)The Crimean war
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