serfdom
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“Russian history is the development of serfdom and autocracy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
At best, the idea relates to some kind of individual flourishing, the opposite of corporate serfdom, a sloughing off of organizational chains leading to an explosion of creativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
It is an epic saga of Judah Ben-Hur, the Jewish prince banished to Roman serfdom who after many vicissitudes returns to his people and is converted to Christianity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
This nation endured 250 years of Mongol domination, followed by serfdom under the tsars and decades of life without freedom under the communists.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
In Russia, serfdom only finally ended in 1861, two years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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