Social Identity in Imperial Russia / / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter.

How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (271 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. THE INSTITUTIONAL SETTING
  • CHAPTER TWO. "RULING" CLASSES AND SERVICE ELITES
  • CHAPTER THREE. MIDDLE GROUPS
  • CHAPTER FOUR. LABORING PEOPLE
  • CONCLUSION. Integration and Disintegration
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index