Word: serfdom
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...century ago these lyrical sketches of Russian country life were considered an incendiary call for the abolition of Russian serfdom. When the book first appeared in 1852, the czar's advisers strongly warned lim against it. But Alexander II read the book and later admitted that it had indeed helped persuade him to free the serfs...
...heir is killed. To save his sanity, the man betrayed by life & death goes abroad. In South America he falls into the clutches of a maniac recluse living in an inaccessible tract of the Amazon jungle. The mad outcast keeps the lover of the manorial past in a serfdom more awful than death-reading aloud the complete works of the laureate of industrial England, Charles Dickens...
...play tells of Alexander Soren (Alfred Drake), a brilliant, self-admiring vice president in charge of production who unintentionally speaks up for the freedom of the screen-and is quickly made to feel the serfdom of its employees. Ordered by the big boss to recant, Soren is egged on by his best girl (Marsha Hunt) to rebel. About 15 minutes before the final curtain, he finds himself both jobless and blacklisted. But Hollywood itself could not find shabbier ways, in those 15 minutes, of arranging a happy ending...
...Russians are born slaves], what impelled the Russian peasants to cast their votes for democratic parties whenever elections were held in Russia? . . . The half-illiterate kolkhoz peasant, loathing Red serfdom, has a clearer notion of democracy than . . . Henry Wallace...
This is an up from serfdom story, relating the upward surge of beaten-down seamen to a position of self respect and the only dignity they have ever known. The Union, says Boyer, has gotten the men something they can put in their wallets, and in their stomachs. It has given them something to think about, a purpose. But more important, it has done something for the people as people, restoring to them a belief in themselves and in the possibilities of social action. There is a new kind of man in America, the union man. He is the forecast...