Generational Synthesis Principle and the Problem of Reflections on Serfdom among Russian Peasantry after 1861

Student: Pashkov Kirill

Supervisor: Ben Eklof

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This research is devoted to the problem of what it was like to be a serf before the period of Great Reforms, how this biographical and traumatic experience has formed the newly freed society, it’s identity, views of life and self-understanding. Based on biographical sources such as memoires and autobiographies, that were created by ex-serfs, this research should provide it’s auditory with the very special “peasant narrative” in Russian history in the nineteenth century, which is, unfortunately, so unknown, unpopular and yet undiscovered among the Russian mass-audience and scientific community. The understanding of this narrative with all it’s complexity and details will provide a clearer view on the generations, that were born as a free folk after 1861.

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