Tsar Alexander III did not ascend the throne of Russia until the 1860s.
It was Alexander II, under the influence of Abraham Lincoln who freed
the serfs. He (Alexander II) was murdered for the act.




---John Perry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In fact, the revolution did not free people from legal serfdom in
Russia.
> Serfdom as a legal institution was abolished in the 1850's in
Russia, by
> Czar Alexander III.  Now, while conditions for most former serfs did
not
> change much between them and the October revolution, it is also true
that
> conditions for those former serfs did not change much after the
revolution
> either.  It is, for example, debatable whether Stalin treated the
rural
> agricultural laborers better than they had been in the time of
Alexander
> II.
>
> JLP
>

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