... was that serfdom had become hereditary. Children of the serfs, automatically became serfs themselves. They also had to pay fines for inheritance, for having children leave the manor, and for having a son leave the manor to become a priest or monk. Freedom was possible, but it required the landowners approval. In Russia, there had been some extreme cases of serfdom but theoretically, serfdom ... sauerkraut (Blum, p.334). Potatoes were migrated from Germany and had been unimportant until the middle of the nineteenth century when things became difficult for Russia. The government initiated...

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