A significant impediment to Russian economic modernization was:
a. restrictions on work times imposed by the Orthodox Church
b. relative nonexistence of the middle classes.
c. the perpetuation of serfdom
d. complete lack of an educational system
e. demonization of the reform efforts of Peter the Great still lingered in the nobility.
ANSWER:
c
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