7: Rise of Muscovite Power
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Three Ways of Expansion
Serfdom is considered to be complete by 1649 when the landowner has your whole life to find you after you run away. So at that point, you can't even go underground for fifteen years, you're a serf until you die. Most of the remaining 99% of the population are peasants, and most of these peasants are bound to the land. And which you will do well if you're in the fighting class, if there is more land. If you are a serf, the only thing you can think about is somehow escaping very far away, and we're going to get to that before we're done. In Russia, so muscovy, I should say
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