Appropriate comparison would be French Revolution and napoleonic wars that followed. The whole mess lasted for decades. Tsatism was indisputably a tyrannical s

Appropriate comparison would be French Revolution and napoleonic wars that followed. The whole mess lasted for decades. Tsatism was indisputably a tyrannical system, and many peasants were still not free until they paid for their freedom ‘Most former serfs had to pay a land redemption fee (redemption payments were not abolished until 1907’