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

"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...

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Main Authors: Smith, Alison Karen
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY, United States of America :
Publication Dates: 2019.
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
1533-1917
Estates (Social orders) > Russia > History > 18th century.
Estates (Social orders) > Russia > History > 19th century.
Peasants > Russia > History.
Community life > Russia > History.
Group identity > Russia > History.
Taxation > Social aspects > Russia > History.
Community life.
Estates (Social orders)
Group identity.
Manners and customs.
Peasants.
Social Conditions.
Social policy.
Taxation > Social aspects.
Russia > Social life and customs > 1533-1917.
Russia > Social conditions > 18th century.
Russia > Social conditions > 1801-1917.
Russia > Social policy.
Russia.
History.
Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=1b0d09420a634b84a97070696aba6c0f
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"--
Item Description: First published, in hardback: 2014.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
ISBN: 9780199978182
Index Number: HN523
CLC: D751.26
Contents: The meaning of soslovie -- Legal standards and administrative reality: local interests and central ideals in the eighteenth century -- The freedom to choose and the right to refuse -- Communities and individuals: soslovie societies and their members -- The death and life of sosloviia in the post-reform empire -- The evolution of collective responsibility -- Soslovie in context: life stories -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Archival sources.

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