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23 janvier 2013
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Russia social history autobiography memoirs peasant studies servile systems serfdom slavery landlordship family saga communal life conversational style History HIS032000 BIO026000 BJ HBJDSujets proches
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Boris B. Gorshkov, « My grandfather », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.i5vjyd
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(III) As serfs belonging to the same person who paid a set rent and worked only rarely for the lord and who were therefore not overworked in the estate mills (unlike in earlier times) and living without pressures from outside officials, our predecessors possessed full freedom to develop their own economic life. The village’s central location, its twice-weekly markets, its two-week fair in September, and the villagers’ own sharpness all assisted them. They only lacked honesty and integrity. Th...