Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824 by Aleksandr Nikitenko

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824

Aleksandr Nikitenko with Helen Saltz Jacobson (Translator)

228 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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"It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder's power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the sam...

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