Russia…had a majority population of unhappy slaves and overtaxed workers. Before 1861 most peasants had been serfs, with no legal status or rights as free men. Alexander II’s emancipation edict gave them legal freedom – but the land redistribution that followed often thousands of peasants worse off than before.
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It is a shocking moment, very touching, perhaps, as an eminent student of Chekhov has found it, “too direct moving.”It is a breathtaking moment, and the pressure on us to “blubber” is very soon intensified. Iona…now credits an animal with a human’s sensitivity to personal anguish.
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