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Billy Street Who benefited from Alexander II's Reforms? In this essay I will attempt to describe which social changes in Russia benefited from Alexander II's domestic reforms such as emancipation, legal, economical, educational, and censorship reforms. The emancipation can be seen as a half-filled promise by many and as a result only small groups of people benefited. Most peasants had huge debts place upon them when they were forced to buy their land from the nobility over 49 years, with overblown prices, and also with added interest. However, in the Western Provinces, the authorities were much more European-influenced and took more compassionate measures with the freed serfs. While prices of land almost doubled in the non-black soil provinces, prices in the Western Provinces even dropped from an average of 184 to 183 million roubles. In these areas, the peasants seemed to profit from the new freedom to travel, marry, trade,...

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