Historically, in terms of managing farm labor, Western and Eastern Europe traded models between the dark ages and modern times. In the medieval period, Western Europe had serfdom, which was gradually abolished in northwestern Europe. Meanwhile, peasants in medieval Russia and Poland (I don't know about Hungary) were free. But in the centuries that serfdom was eroding in western Europe, it was becoming more entrenched in the east, in Russia, Poland and the Baltics and Hungary.
So here's the social challenge- prevent serfdom from becoming a ubiquitous institution in Eastern Europe.
So here's the social challenge- prevent serfdom from becoming a ubiquitous institution in Eastern Europe.