Of course, we cannot compare the reality of the serfdom-era countryside to that of post-enfranchisement (since, as we shall see below with the example of marriage, socio-economic transformations left ...

THERE are some who regard this War as liable to become economically a war against the middle class, as indeed the War of 1914ndash;18 was as touching the middle classes in Germany. Even were this ...

African slavery was more akin to European serfdom --the condition of most Europeans in the 15th century. In the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa, for example, slaves could marry, own property and ...

When the course of civilization takes an unexpected turn -- when, instead of the continuous progress which we have come to expect, we find ourselves threatened by evils associated by us with past ...

The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in England is centralto this "Transition Debate", because it transformed the lives of ordinary people and opened up the markets in land and labour. Yet ...

Ironically, the “T-Pain” sobriquet is itself an emotional reaction to a bucket of stimuli. The pains that the Nigerian people have been through in the last one year are rivalled only by the ...

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 ...

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Andrew Marr describes how serfdom was finally abolished in Russia in the 19th century. He uses Tolstoy’s efforts to free his serfs as a case study, and explores Tsar Alexander II’s failed ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) in which Hayek (1899-1992) warned that the way Britain was running its wartime ...