For the common good and their own well-being : social estates in Imperial Russia

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Label

For the common good and their own well-being : social estates in Imperial Russia

Title remainder

social estates in Imperial Russia

Statement of responsibility

Alison K. Smith

Creator

• Smith, Alison Karen

Subject

• Community life
• Community life -- Russia -- History
• Estates (Social orders)
• Estates (Social orders) -- Russia -- History -- 18th century
• Estates (Social orders) -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
• Group identity
• Group identity -- Russia -- History
• History
• Manners and customs
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
• Peasants
• Peasants -- Russia -- History
• 1533-1917
• Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917
• Russia -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917
• Russia -- Social policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Social conditions
• Social policy
• Taxation -- Social aspects
• Taxation -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History
• Russia

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"This book shows how the imperial Russian system of social estates (sosloviia), which derived from the government's need to categorize and rank its subjects, held power over individual identities and life choices in Russia throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though in part modeled on the orders of old regime Europe, also called estates, the Russian system had its own peculiarities, two of which include the imprecision in the (oft changing) laws of its rules and procedures, allowing for endless interpretations and realignments, and its stamina, not being swept away until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. For the imperial state, estates were a means of making the population productive; for individuals, they were a source not only of individual identity, but of community, in ways at times demanding and at times supportive"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.094709/033

Index

index present

LC call number

HN523

LC item number

.S59 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography