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Now I'm not positive but I think they had serps (slaves), the working conditions weren't great but they were getting better
With the Tsar Nicholas II in charge of Russia in the early 1900s, working conditions were terrible & led to over a million workers going on strikes & marches in St. Petersburg demanding more freedoms, better working conditions, & elected legislators. ( I literally learned this last night, so this answer is straight from my notebook lol)