Alison K Smith

For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being

Social Estates in Imperial Russia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. This book looks at the many ways that soslovie affected individual lives, and traces its legislation and administration from the early eighteenth through to the early twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199978175
• ISBN-10: 0199978174
• Artikelnr.: 47864798

Autorenporträt

Alison K. Smith is Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Preface and Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Meaning of Soslovie
* Chapter 2: Legal Standards and Administrative Reality: Local
Interests and
* Central Ideals in the 18th Century
* Chapter 3: The Freedom to Choose and the Right to Refuse
* Chapter 4: Communities and Individuals: Soslovie Societies and their
Members
* Chapter 5: The Death and Life of Sosloviia in the Post-Reform Empire
* Chapter 6: The Evolution of Collective Responsibility
* Chapter 7: Soslovie in Context: Life Stories
* Conclusion
* Appendix: Archival Sources
* Selected Bibliography
* Notes
* Index