Why was russia struggling to modernize at the end of the nineteenth century russia refused to abolish serfdom and its agricultural past revolutionaries were trying to overthrow the tsar russias leaders and nobility has resisted social change european nations refused to finance russias industrialization

Russia  refused  to  abolish  serfdom  and  its  agricultural  past.
 Agriculture  was  technologically  underdeveloped  and  remained  in  the  hands  of  serfs  and  state  peasants.  they  were  large  estate  which  accounted  for  about  20%  of  all  farmland  but  few  of  them  were  worked  as large  scale  unit.