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Peasants did not have any civil and political rights and any legal
protection against landlords or government officials |
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The serfs were often treated as chattel |
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The trade in serfs flourished both in private sales and public
auctions |
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The entire class of the nobility depended for their livelihood on
the ownership of people |
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Pugachev was a former convict and deserter from the Russian army |
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He led an army of serfs, laborers from the mines and factories of
the Urals, and Cossacks |
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The rebels wanted the division of the landlords’ estates among the
peasants |
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Pugachev was caught and brought in an iron cage to Moscow, where he
was tried and executed in 1775 |
