Take+notes+(Main+Ideas+and+Details)+on+themes+in+Russia+at+this+time

Take notes (Main Ideas and Details) on themes in Russia at this time
 * Serfdom**
 * During the 17th and 18th century Serf's has been slowly but surely increasing their power in society
 * Was largely free farmers compared to their Russian counterparts
 * But lots of the peasants ended up in debt
 * Half of them were owned by state and the other half by landlords
 * in 1649 there was a law that made serfs born into a station and could not escape it
 * Later on, almost created a system just like slaves. Where they could be brought traded and gambled away
 * Serfs were taxed and policed by their landlords
 * paid high taxes but wasn't considered a slave yet
 * 1785 a law passed so that landlords could cruelly punish their serfs if they started to rebel
 * Dependence**
 * Cities were small and 95% of the city was rural
 * potential social competition that prevented the emergence of substantial merchant class
 * had enough revenue to support the state and the empire
 * Traded furs and other comma dies
 * had significant growth, by doubling in the 18th century
 * had only one problem, because they were slacking little motivation from the serfs
 * because they relied on the landlords for production
 * Social Unrest**
 * lots of protest such as Radishev, urging the abolition of serfdom
 * Peasant rebellions took place
 * but most peasants were very loyal to the Tsar
 * Peasants started to destroy records, seize land and even kill their landlords
 * Pugachev then promised to stop and make the serfs happy by ending serfdom,taxation and abolition serfs
 * Peasants were soon less and less focused to work
 * Eastern Europe**
 * Greek merchants took many ideas from the enlightenment
 * Copernicus developed the scientific revolution
 * Central Europe took their own reformation
 * With new cultural exchanges in the west
 * Polish cultural life was a lot more better
 * but did not have a stable urban class