enserfed

Updated: January 24, 2026

The Jugo-Slavs, like the Czecho-Slovaks, appeared in modern times as a nation which had lost its native nobility and had been reduced to a disarmed, untutored, and enserfed peasantry. In the absence of these leaders, the nation turned to its clergy who in order to retain their hold on the peasantry must needs ever remain national.

Frank Alfred Golder - The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement