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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: World Economic Forum - The impact of serfdom on economic development. | Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Economic Forum - The impact of serfdom on economic development. | Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge University Press - Contemporary European History - Peasants and the Politics of History: Memories of Serfdom in Debates on Land Reform in Early Inter-War Poland. | Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centre for Economic Policy Research - Serfdom and Russian economic development. | Nov 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hanover College - History Department - The Impact of Serfdom on the Russian Empire: The Social, Political, and Economic Struggles from Russia's "Backwardness" (PDF). | Jul 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Aspen Institute - The Road to Serfdom (PDF). | May 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Serfdom. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at COD - The Influence of Education on Russian Serfdom. | Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation - Serfdom and State Power in Imperial Russia (PDF). | Sep 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Serfdom. | Jul 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Serf. | Sep 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GeoHistory Today - Channels of Legal Agency in Russian Serfdom: A Case Study of Petitions from the Vladimir Guberniya, 1796-1808. | Mar 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - The Emancipation of the Russian Serfs, 1861. | May 01, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Serfdom in Europe. | May 01, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Aug 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Serfdom. | Jun 18, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Russian Serfs. | Jan 25, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - History - Serf. | Jan 25, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Russia Info Center - Abolition of Serfdom. | Jan 25, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Medieval Serfdom. | Jan 25, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 28, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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