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Baltic Studies
Research conducted at University of Tartu has provided new information about baltic studies
May 17th, 2008
According to a study from Tartu, Estonia, "This article attempts to estimate how far-reaching and successful the Kiselev reforms of state peasants in the Baltic Provinces of Russia were. It also challenges the view deeply entrenched in Baltic scholarly literature that it was the local provincial Diets and not the imperial authorities that initiated many of the so-called peasant emancipation reforms in the Baltics." "The article argues that it was in fact tsarist government legislation that protected the rights of the state peasantry even after the landless emancipation of the early nineteenth century and that forced peasants to start paying money rent instead of labor...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-17)
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