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It is the year 1861. Tsar Alexander II has just issued the Emancipation Reform. I am a serf. How do I hear about the Reform and how, practically, is my life changed?

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It is the year 1861. Tsar Alexander II has just issued the Emancipation Reform. I am a serf. How do I hear about the Reform and how, practically, is my life changed?	142
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