GEOG 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Planned Economy, Mikhail Gorbachev, Women'S Wear Daily
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Bc they couldn"t be bought/sold, they had no value, and you didn"t have to treat them well; the masters usually treated them terribly: each serf/family had their own piece of land for themselves, similar, were kept illiterate on purpose, couldn"t marry w/o landlords permission, couldn"t leave w/o permission, the majority of people were either peasants of serfs in feudal conditions until the 1800s, even after the abolition of serfdom, the majority of the people continued to live in poverty, even as russia was moving into 20th century, there was comparatively little industry. Marx imagined a society where fairness prevailed, an egalitarian society where everyone had enough for what they needed and everyone worked together to achieve progress: these ideas were incredibly compelling all over europe and, after turn of 20th century a group of revolutionaries sought to bring in america.
