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How serfdom hardwired extractive institutions into the Russian economy

Summary by voxdev.org
Unlike Western Europe, Russia entrenched serfdom as an extractive institution rooted in frontier defence. To secure its southern border, the state granted land to servicemen who leveraged their strategic role to restrict peasant mobility—hardwiring coercion into law and shaping Russia’s long-term institutional landscape.
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voxdev.org broke the news in on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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